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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'A Conversation: what is it? What is it for?' and 'Identity and Existence in Logic'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence

18769	Do mathematicians use 'existence' differently when they say some entity exists? [Anderson,CA]
	Full Idea: A cursory examination shows that mathematicians have no aversion to saying that this-or-that mathematical entity exists. But is this a different sense of 'existence'?
	From: C. Anthony Anderson (Identity and Existence in Logic [2014], 2.6)
	A reaction: For those of us like me and my pal Quine who say that 'exist' is univocal (i.e. only one meaning), this is a nice challenge. Quine solves it by saying maths concerns sets of objects. I, who don't like sets, am puzzled (so I turn to fictionalism...).

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / i. Deflating being

21847	Before Being there is politics [Deleuze]
	Full Idea: Before Being there is politics.
	From: Gilles Deleuze (A Conversation: what is it? What is it for? [1977], I)
	A reaction: [He says he is quoting Felix Guattari] I can only think that this is a very Marxist view - that politics permeates and dictates everything. This seems to tell me that I am forever controlled by something so deep and vast that I can never understand it.