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All the ideas for 'The Epistemology of Modality', 'works' and 'On the Concept of Number'

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 1. Aims of Science

6782	Realism is the only philosophy of science that doesn't make the success of science a miracle [Putnam]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 7. Formalism

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Hilbert said (to block paradoxes) that mathematical existence is entailed by consistency [Hilbert, by Potter]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism

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Putnam says anti-realism is a bad explanation of accurate predictions [Putnam, by Okasha]

10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 4. Conceivable as Possible / a. Conceivable as possible

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How do you know you have conceived a thing deeply enough to assess its possibility? [Vaidya]