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All the ideas for 'works', 'On the Foundations of Logic and Arithmetic' and 'Contemporary Efficient Causation: Aristotelian themes'

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5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 3. Contradiction

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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor lack of contradiction a sign of truth [Pascal]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / c. Against mathematical empiricism

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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

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Logic already contains some arithmetic, so the two must be developed together [Hilbert]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation

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Causation interests us because we want to explain change [Mumford]