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All the ideas for 'German Philosophy: a very short introduction', 'Mathematical Truth' and 'Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Tractatus'

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14 ideas

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 3. Hermeneutics

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Interpreting a text is representing it as making sense [Morris,M]

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 1. Bivalence

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Bipolarity adds to Bivalence the capacity for both truth values [Morris,M]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 1. Quantification

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Conjunctive and disjunctive quantifiers are too specific, and are confined to the finite [Morris,M]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 1. Mathematics

9935	Mathematical truth is always compromising between ordinary language and sensible epistemology [Benacerraf]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / c. Counting procedure

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Counting needs to distinguish things, and also needs the concept of a successor in a series [Morris,M]

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To count, we must distinguish things, and have a series with successors in it [Morris,M]

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Discriminating things for counting implies concepts of identity and distinctness [Morris,M]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 1. Mathematical Platonism / b. Against mathematical platonism

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Realists have semantics without epistemology, anti-realists epistemology but bad semantics [Benacerraf, by Colyvan]

9936	The platonist view of mathematics doesn't fit our epistemology very well [Benacerraf]

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

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Transcendental idealism aims to explain objectivity through subjectivity [Bowie]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism

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The Idealists saw the same unexplained spontaneity in Kant's judgements and choices [Bowie]

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German Idealism tried to stop oppositions of appearances/things and receptivity/spontaneity [Bowie]

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Crucial to Idealism is the idea of continuity between receptivity and spontaneous judgement [Bowie]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions

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There must exist a general form of propositions, which are predictabe. It is: such and such is the case [Morris,M]