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All the ideas for 'The Metaontology of Abstraction', 'Zettel' and 'The Will to Believe'

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14 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

2626	A philosopher is outside any community of ideas [Wittgenstein]

2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 1. Fallacy

12223

It is a fallacy to explain the obscure with the even more obscure [Hale/Wright]

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / d. Singular terms

12230

Singular terms refer if they make certain atomic statements true [Hale/Wright]

5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 6. Paradoxes in Language / a. The Liar paradox

6569	'This sentence is false' sends us in a looping search for its proposition [Wittgenstein, by Fogelin]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / c. Neo-logicism

12225

Neo-Fregeanism might be better with truth-makers, rather than quantifier commitment [Hale/Wright]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / d. Logicism critique

12224

Are neo-Fregeans 'maximalists' - that everything which can exist does exist? [Hale/Wright]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment

12226

The identity of Pegasus with Pegasus may be true, despite the non-existence [Hale/Wright]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 3. Types of Properties

12229

Maybe we have abundant properties for semantics, and sparse properties for ontology [Hale/Wright]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 10. Properties as Predicates

18443

A successful predicate guarantees the existence of a property - the way of being it expresses [Hale/Wright]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 2. Causal Justification

3790	Causes of beliefs are irrelevant to their contents [Wittgenstein]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 7. Abstracta by Equivalence

12227

Abstractionism needs existential commitment and uniform truth-conditions [Hale/Wright]

12228

Equivalence abstraction refers to objects otherwise beyond our grasp [Hale/Wright]

19. Language / B. Reference / 4. Descriptive Reference / a. Sense and reference

12231

Reference needs truth as well as sense [Hale/Wright]

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 4. Unfairness

6570	Imagine millions made happy on condition that one person suffers endless lonely torture [James]