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All the ideas for 'The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics', 'The Theory of Transfinite Numbers' and 'Letter to Clerk Maxwell'

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5 ideas

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]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 1. Set Theory

9616	A set is a collection into a whole of distinct objects of our intuition or thought [Cantor]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / f. Uncountable infinities

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Cantor needed Power Set for the reals, but then couldn't count the new collections [Cantor, by Lavine]

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]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / c. Forces

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By 'force' I mean the sources of all actions - sometimes called 'powers' by their outcomes [Breheny]