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Ideas for 'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'Frege philosophy of mathematics' and 'Boole calculus and the Concept script'

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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 6. Judgement / a. Nature of Judgement

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We don't judge by combining subject and concept; we get a concept by splitting up a judgement [Frege]

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 4. Structure of Concepts / i. Conceptual priority

9849	Maybe a concept is 'prior' to another if it can be defined without the second concept [Dummett]

9850	An argument for conceptual priority is greater simplicity in explanation [Dummett]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 1. Abstract Thought

9873	Abstract terms are acceptable as long as we know how they function linguistically [Dummett]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 7. Abstracta by Equivalence

9993	There is no reason why abstraction by equivalence classes should be called 'logical' [Dummett, by Tait]

9857	We arrive at the concept 'suicide' by comparing 'Cato killed Cato' with 'Brutus killed Brutus' [Dummett]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 8. Abstractionism Critique

9833	To abstract from spoons (to get the same number as the forks), the spoons must be indistinguishable too [Dummett]