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All the ideas for 'The Origin of the Work of Art', 'Is Mathematics purely Linguistic?' and 'Sense and Sensibilia'

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3 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / b. Philosophy as transcendent

15585	Later Heidegger sees philosophy as more like poetry than like science [Heidegger, by Polt]
	Full Idea: In his later work Heidegger came to view philosophy as closer to poetry than to science.
	From: report of Martin Heidegger (The Origin of the Work of Art [1935], p.178) by Richard Polt - Heidegger: an introduction 5 'Signs'

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 7. Formalism

21570	Numbers are just verbal conveniences, which can be analysed away [Russell]
	Full Idea: Numbers are nothing but a verbal convenience, and disappear when the propositions that seem to contain them are fully written out.
	From: Bertrand Russell (Is Mathematics purely Linguistic? [1952], p.301)
	A reaction: This is the culmination of the process which began with his 1905 theory of definite descriptions. The intervening step was Wittgenstein's purely formal account of the logical connectives.

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / a. Problem of vagueness

21598	Austin revealed many meanings for 'vague': rough, ambiguous, general, incomplete... [Austin,JL, by Williamson]
	Full Idea: Austin's account brought out the variety of features covered by 'vague' in different contexts: roughness, ambiguity, imprecision, lack of detail, generality, inaccuracy, incompleteness. Even 'vague' is vague.
	From: report of J.L. Austin (Sense and Sensibilia [1962], p.125-8) by Timothy Williamson - Vagueness 3.1
	A reaction: Some of these sound the same. Maybe Austin distinguishes them.