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Ideas for 'The Fixation of Belief', 'Evidentialism' and 'The Limits of Abstraction'

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 4. Aims of Reason

6937	Reason aims to discover the unknown by thinking about the known [Peirce]

2. Reason / D. Definition / 3. Types of Definition

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'Creative definitions' do not presuppose the existence of the objects defined [Fine,K]

9143	Implicit definitions must be satisfiable, creative definitions introduce things, contextual definitions build on things [Fine,K, by Cook/Ebert]