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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Sources of Knowledge of Mathematics' and 'Lewis's Programme'

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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]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 9. Counterfactuals

8431	Problems with Goodman's view of counterfactuals led to a radical approach from Stalnaker and Lewis [Horwich]

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]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / c. Counterfactual causation

8432	Analyse counterfactuals using causation, not the other way around [Horwich]

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

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