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All the ideas for 'Letter to Shumacher', 'Human Knowledge: its scope and limits' and 'Toward a Philosophy of History'

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5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / c. not

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Is it possible to state every possible truth about the whole course of nature without using 'not'? [Russell]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / d. Actual infinite

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Actual infinities are not allowed in mathematics - only limits which may increase without bound [Gauss]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / h. Dasein (being human)

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For man, being is not what he is, but what he is going to be [Ortega y Gassett]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 6. Logical Necessity

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Some facts about experience feel like logical necessities [Russell]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique

16488

It is hard to explain how a sentence like 'it is not raining' can be found true by observation [Russell]

19. Language / F. Communication / 3. Denial

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If we define 'this is not blue' as disbelief in 'this is blue', we eliminate 'not' as an ingredient of facts [Russell]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

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Instead of having a nature, man only has a history [Ortega y Gassett]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

4786	Russell's 'at-at' theory says motion is to be at the intervening points at the intervening instants [Russell, by Psillos]