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Ideas for '(Nonsolipsistic) Conceptual Role Semantics', 'Philosophy of Mathematics' and 'Consciousness: matter becomes imagination'

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence
Reasoning aims at increasing explanatory coherence [Harman]
Reason conservatively: stick to your beliefs, and prefer reasoning that preserves most of them [Harman]
2. Reason / D. Definition / 2. Aims of Definition
Definitions should be replaceable by primitives, and should not be creative [Brown,JR]