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All the ideas for 'Idealism: a critical survey', 'Mathematical Truth' and 'Empiricist View of Religion'

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 1. Mathematics
9935 Mathematical truth is always compromising between ordinary language and sensible epistemology [Benacerraf]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 1. Mathematical Platonism / b. Against mathematical platonism
17927 Realists have semantics without epistemology, anti-realists epistemology but bad semantics [Benacerraf, by Colyvan]
9936 The platonist view of mathematics doesn't fit our epistemology very well [Benacerraf]
13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / b. Pro-coherentism
21513 We can no more expect a precise definition of coherence than we can of the moral ideal [Ewing]
13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / c. Coherentism critique
21497 If undetailed, 'coherence' is just a vague words that covers all possible arguments [Ewing]
29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / b. Religious Meaning
1468 If meaning is use, then religious sentences have meaning because they are used to assert an intention about how to live [Braithwaite, by PG]