Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Mind and Its Place in Nature', 'Philosophy and Scientific Image of Man' and 'works'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / c. Philosophy as generalisation

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Philosophy aims to understand how things (broadly understood) hang together (broadly understood) [Sellars]

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

3340	Von Neumann defines each number as the set of all smaller numbers [Neumann, by Blackburn]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 8. Critique of Set Theory

3355	Von Neumann wanted mathematical functions to replace sets [Neumann, by Benardete,JA]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / e. Ordinal numbers

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Von Neumann defined ordinals as the set of all smaller ordinals [Neumann, by Poundstone]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction

6550	Reduction requires that an object's properties consist of its constituents' properties and relations [Sellars]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 6. Inference in Perception

7628	Broad rejects the inferential component of the representative theory [Broad, by Maund]