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All the ideas for 'Confessions of a Philosopher', 'City of God' and 'Cantorian Abstraction: Recon. and Defence'

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5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 4. Variables in Logic

9148	I think of variables as objects rather than as signs [Fine,K]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 4. The Cogito

3912	I must exist in order to be mistaken, so that even if I am mistaken, I can't be wrong about my own existence [Augustine]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 5. Generalisation by mind

9152	If green is abstracted from a thing, it is only seen as a type if it is common to many things [Fine,K]

16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 3. Limits of Introspection

3102	Why don't we experience or remember going to sleep at night? [Magee]

17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 2. Interactionism

6683	The contact of spirit and body is utterly amazing, and incomprehensible [Augustine]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 2. Abstracta by Selection

9149	To obtain the number 2 by abstraction, we only want to abstract the distinctness of a pair of objects [Fine,K]

9150	We should define abstraction in general, with number abstraction taken as a special case [Fine,K]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 8. Abstractionism Critique

9146	After abstraction all numbers seem identical, so only 0 and 1 will exist! [Fine,K]