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All the ideas for 'The Nature of Thought', 'Later Letters to Dedekind' and 'Grounding, Transitivity and Contrastivity'

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8 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence

2764	Full coherence might involve consistency and mutual entailment of all propositions [Blanshard, by Dancy,J]

3. Truth / D. Coherence Truth / 1. Coherence Truth

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Coherence tests for truth without implying correspondence, so truth is not correspondence [Blanshard, by Young,JO]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / a. Axioms for sets

17831

Cantor gives informal versions of ZF axioms as ways of getting from one set to another [Cantor, by Lake]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / a. Nature of grounding

17306

If ground is transitive and irreflexive, it has a strict partial ordering, giving structure [Schaffer,J]

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As causation links across time, grounding links the world across levels [Schaffer,J]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / b. Contrastive explanations

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Explaining 'Adam ate the apple' depends on emphasis, and thus implies a contrast [Schaffer,J]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 1. Nature

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I take what is fundamental to be the whole spatiotemporal manifold and its fields [Schaffer,J]

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

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Nowadays causation is usually understood in terms of equations and variable ranges [Schaffer,J]