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All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Properties'', 'Letters to a Young Clergyman' and 'works'

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason

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You can't reason someone out of an irrational opinion [Swift]

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 6. Ockham's Razor

4037	Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 1. Mathematics

8717	Hilbert wanted to prove the consistency of all of mathematics (which realists take for granted) [Hilbert, by Friend]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 7. Formalism

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The grounding of mathematics is 'in the beginning was the sign' [Hilbert]

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Hilbert substituted a syntactic for a semantic account of consistency [Hilbert, by George/Velleman]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 8. Finitism

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Hilbert aimed to prove the consistency of mathematics finitely, to show infinities won't produce contradictions [Hilbert, by George/Velleman]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 6. Categorical Properties

4027	Properties are respects in which particular objects may be alike or differ [Mellor/Oliver]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 12. Denial of Properties

4029	Nominalists ask why we should postulate properties at all [Mellor/Oliver]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 5. Abstracta by Negation

4039	Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver]