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All the ideas for 'The Poetics', 'Letters to Russell' and 'Presupposition and Conversational Implicature'

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / g. Real numbers

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I wish to go straight from cardinals to reals (as ratios), leaving out the rationals [Frege]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / a. Early logicism

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The loss of my Rule V seems to make foundations for arithmetic impossible [Frege]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / c. Modern abstracta

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Logical objects are extensions of concepts, or ranges of values of functions [Frege]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

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The actual must be possible, because it occurred [Aristotle]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / f. Pragmatics of conditionals

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Conditionals are truth-functional, but unassertable in tricky cases? [Grice, by Read]

19. Language / F. Communication / 5. Pragmatics / b. Implicature

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Key conversational maxims are 'quality' (assert truth) and 'quantity' (leave nothing out) [Grice, by Read]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 8. The Arts / b. Literature

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Poetry is more philosophic than history, as it concerns universals, not particulars [Aristotle]