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All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Virtues of Authenticity'', 'Sententia on 'Posterior Analytics'' and 'Sources of Knowledge of Mathematics'

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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / d. Logicism critique

9545	Late in life Frege abandoned logicism, and saw the source of arithmetic as geometrical [Frege, by Chihara]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / a. Platonic Forms

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Forms are not a theory of universals, but an attempt to explain how predication is possible [Nehamas]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking

17946

Only Tallness really is tall, and other inferior tall things merely participate in the tallness [Nehamas]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

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'Episteme' is better translated as 'understanding' than as 'knowledge' [Nehamas]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / a. Coherence as justification

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The fullest knowledge places a conclusion within an accurate theory [Aquinas, by Kretzmann/Stump]