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All the ideas for 'Subjectivist's Guide to Objective Chance', 'On the Concept of Number' and 'Theory of Knowledge (2nd edn)'

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / b. Seventeenth century philosophy
Most philosophers start with reality and then examine knowledge; Descartes put the study of knowledge first [Lehrer]
1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 4. Conceptual Analysis
You cannot demand an analysis of a concept without knowing the purpose of the analysis [Lehrer]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 7. Formalism
Hilbert said (to block paradoxes) that mathematical existence is entailed by consistency [Hilbert, by Potter]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / b. Best system theory
Lewis later proposed the axioms at the intersection of the best theories (which may be few) [Mumford on Lewis]