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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Intending' and 'Letters to Samuel Masson'

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

13190

I don't admit infinite numbers, and consider infinitesimals to be useful fictions [Leibniz]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / a. Nature of intentions

20076

An intending is a judgement that the action is desirable [Davidson]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / c. Reducing intentions

20024

Davidson gave up reductive accounts of intention, and said it was a primitive [Davidson, by Wilson/Schpall]

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]