Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Critical Common-Sensism', 'The Scope and Language of Science' and 'Kant's Analytic'

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6 ideas

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 6. Mathematics as Set Theory / a. Mathematics is set theory

8463	Maths can be reduced to logic and set theory [Quine]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties

8461	The category of objects incorporates the old distinction of substances and their modes [Quine]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / e. Vague objects

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All communication is vague, and is outside the principle of non-contradiction [Peirce]

14797

Vagueness is a neglected but important part of mathematical thought [Peirce]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 6. Conceptual Dualism

8462	A hallucination can, like an ague, be identified with its host; the ontology is physical, the idiom mental [Quine]

27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 4. Substantival Space

8592	Empty space is measurable in ways in which empty time necessarily is not [Bennett, by Shoemaker]