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All the ideas for 'The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics', 'works' and 'Intuitionism and Formalism'

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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics

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Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW]

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 4. Linguistic Structuralism

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Basic to human culture are binary oppositions, such as eating raw or cooked [Levi-Strauss, by Green,TH]

4. Formal Logic / E. Nonclassical Logics / 7. Paraconsistency

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Our dislike of contradiction in logic is a matter of psychology, not mathematics [Brouwer]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / g. Applying mathematics

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Scientific laws largely rest on the results of counting and measuring [Brouwer]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / b. Intuitionism

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Intuitionists only accept denumerable sets [Brouwer]

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Neo-intuitionism abstracts from the reuniting of moments, to intuit bare two-oneness [Brouwer]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism

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Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification

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Intuitonists in mathematics worried about unjustified assertion, as well as contradiction [Brouwer, by George/Velleman]