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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Letter to Shumacher' and 'Why Propositions Aren't Truth-Supporting Circumstance'

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / d. Actual infinite

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Actual infinities are not allowed in mathematics - only limits which may increase without bound [Gauss]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 2. Semantics

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Semantics as theory of meaning and semantics as truth-based logical consequence are very different [Soames]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 6. Truth-Conditions Semantics

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Semantic content is a proposition made of sentence constituents (not some set of circumstances) [Soames]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]