Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Survival and Identity, with postscript', 'The Structure and Content of Truth' and 'The Philosophy of Logic'

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5 ideas

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 3. Correspondence Truth critique

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Correspondence theories can't tell you what truths correspond to [Davidson]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / i. Cardinal infinity

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Very large sets should be studied in an 'if-then' spirit [Putnam]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / b. Indispensability of mathematics

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Indispensability strongly supports predicative sets, and somewhat supports impredicative sets [Putnam]

8857	We must quantify over numbers for science; but that commits us to their existence [Putnam]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 4. De re / De dicto modality

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De re modal predicates are ambiguous [Lewis, by Rudder Baker]