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All the ideas for 'The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics', 'Episteme and Logos in later Plato' and 'Difficulties of Transfinite Numbers and Types'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics
Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW]
2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 2. Logos
A logos may be short, but it contains reference to the whole domain of the object [Nehamas]
The logos enables us to track one particular among a network of objects [Nehamas]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / d. Predicativism
We need rules for deciding which norms are predicative (unless none of them are) [Russell]
'Predicative' norms are those which define a class [Russell]
11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism
Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW]