Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Letter to Shumacher', 'Logical Foundations of Probability' and 'Ontology and the Vicious Circle Principle'

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

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Could we replace sets by the open sentences that define them? [Chihara, by Bostock]

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]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 1. Explanation / b. Aims of explanation

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Good explications are exact, fruitful, simple and similar to the explicandum [Carnap, by Salmon]