Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'What is Mathematical Truth?' and 'The Web of Belief'

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 1. Nature of Analysis

8460	Philosophers have given precise senses to deduction, probability, computability etc [Quine/Ullian]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

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Mathematics eliminates possibility, as being simultaneous actuality in sets [Putnam]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / d. Location of mind

5987	Alcmaeon was the first to say the brain is central to thinking [Alcmaeon, by Staden, von]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / b. Soul

24043

Soul must be immortal, since it continually moves, like the heavens [Alcmaeon, by Aristotle]