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All the ideas for 'Paradoxes of the Infinite', 'Geometrical Method and Metaphysics' and 'Attitudes De Dicto and De Se'

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4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 1. Set Theory

9987	An aggregate in which order does not matter I call a 'set' [Bolzano]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / a. The Infinite

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A truly infinite quantity does not need to be a variable [Bolzano]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / d. Possible worlds actualism

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The actual world is just the world you are in [Lewis, by Cappelen/Dever]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs

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A content is a property, and believing it is self-ascribing that property [Lewis, by Recanati]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / g. Causal explanations

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Minds are best explained by their ends, and bodies by efficient causes [Leibniz]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 2. Propositional Attitudes

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Attitudes involve properties (not propositions), and belief is self-ascribing the properties [Lewis, by Solomon]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 9. Indexical Thought

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Lewis's popular centred worlds approach gives an attitude an index of world, subject and time [Lewis, by Recanati]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions

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A theory of perspectival de se content gives truth conditions relative to an agent [Lewis, by Cappelen/Dever]