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All the ideas for 'works (all lost)', 'What Metaphors Mean' and 'On the Foundations of Logic and Arithmetic'

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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / c. Against mathematical empiricism
17697 The existence of an arbitrarily large number refutes the idea that numbers come from experience [Hilbert]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / d. Logicism critique
17698 Logic already contains some arithmetic, so the two must be developed together [Hilbert]
19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / d. Metaphor
7775 Understanding a metaphor is a creative act, with no rules [Davidson]
7777 We accept a metaphor when we see the sentence is false [Davidson]
7776 Metaphors just mean what their words literally mean [Davidson]