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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Review of Parsons (1983)' and 'Of the standard of taste'

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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / b. Indispensability of mathematics

18198

Mathematics is part of science; transfinite mathematics I take as mostly uninterpreted [Quine]

21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 2. Aesthetic Attitude

18552

Forget about beauty; just concentrate on the virtues of delicacy and discernment admired in critics [Hume, by Scruton]

21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 3. Taste

6608	Strong sense, delicate sentiment, practice, comparisons, and lack of prejudice, are all needed for good taste [Hume]

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]