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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Structure and Nature' and 'Truth, Correspondence, Explanation and Knowledge'

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6 ideas

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 1. For Truthmakers

18487

We want to know what makes sentences true, rather than defining 'true' [McFetridge]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 7. Mathematical Structuralism / a. Structuralism

10242

I apply structuralism to concrete and abstract objects indiscriminately [Quine]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism

10243

My ontology is quarks etc., classes of such things, classes of such classes etc. [Quine]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / a. Facts

18488

We normally explain natural events by citing further facts [McFetridge]

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]