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Ideas for 'Precis of 'Limits of Abstraction'', 'Causation and Laws of Nature' and 'Investigations in the Foundations of Set Theory I'

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2. Reason / D. Definition / 2. Aims of Definition

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Definitions concern how we should speak, not how things are [Fine,K]

2. Reason / D. Definition / 8. Impredicative Definition

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Predicative definitions are acceptable in mathematics if they distinguish objects, rather than creating them? [Zermelo, by Lavine]