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All the ideas for 'Issues of Pragmaticism', 'From Supervenience to Superdupervenience' and 'Grundlagen (Foundations of Theory of Manifolds)'

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4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 1. Set Theory

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Cantor developed sets from a progression into infinity by addition, multiplication and exponentiation [Cantor, by Lavine]

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

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Ordinals are generated by endless succession, followed by a limit ordinal [Cantor, by Lavine]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / b. Types of supervenience

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'Superdupervenience' is supervenience that has a robustly materialistic explanation [Horgan,T]

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'Global' supervenience is facts tracking varying physical facts in every possible world [Horgan,T]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience

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Don't just observe supervenience - explain it! [Horgan,T]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism

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Physicalism needs more than global supervenience on the physical [Horgan,T]

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Materialism requires that physics be causally complete [Horgan,T]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 3. Instrumentalism

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Instrumentalism normally says some discourse is useful, but not genuinely true [Horgan,T]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning

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The meaning or purport of a symbol is all the rational conduct it would lead to [Peirce]