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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Preface to Great Instauration (Renewal)' and 'Logicism, Some Considerations (PhD)'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy

6602	Philosophy is like a statue which is worshipped but never advances [Bacon]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / a. Numbers

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Obtaining numbers by abstraction is impossible - there are too many; only a rule could give them, in order [Benacerraf]

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We must explain how we know so many numbers, and recognise ones we haven't met before [Benacerraf]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / c. Priority of numbers

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If numbers are basically the cardinals (Frege-Russell view) you could know some numbers in isolation [Benacerraf]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 7. Mathematical Structuralism / a. Structuralism

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An adequate account of a number must relate it to its series [Benacerraf]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception

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The senses deceive, but also show their own errors [Bacon]

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 3. Experiment

6603	Nature is revealed when we put it under pressure rather than observe it [Bacon]

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

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