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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Letters to Oldenburg' and 'Abstraction Reconsidered'

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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / c. Against mathematical empiricism

10735

Abstraction from objects won't reveal an operation's being performed 'so many times' [Geach]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 5. Generalisation by mind

10732

If concepts are just recognitional, then general judgements would be impossible [Geach]

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 3. Ontology of Concepts / b. Concepts as abilities

10731

For abstractionists, concepts are capacities to recognise recurrent features of the world [Geach]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 8. Abstractionism Critique

10733

The abstractionist cannot explain 'some' and 'not' [Geach]

10734

Only a judgement can distinguish 'striking' from 'being struck' [Geach]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

468	Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism

4867	Whether nature is beautiful or orderly is entirely in relation to human imagination [Spinoza]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 3. Divine Perfections

4866	God is a being with infinite attributes, each of them infinite or perfect [Spinoza]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / e. Miracles

4868	Trying to prove God's existence through miracles is proving the obscure by the more obscure [Spinoza]