Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Subjectivist's Guide to Objective Chance', 'Investigations into Logical Deduction' and 'Philosophical Grammar'

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4 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / H. Proof Systems / 4. Natural Deduction

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Natural deduction shows the heart of reasoning (and sequent calculus is just a tool) [Gentzen, by Hacking]

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

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In mathematics everything is algorithm and nothing is meaning [Wittgenstein]

21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 2. Aesthetic Attitude

6606	Consider: "Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful" [Wittgenstein]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / b. Best system theory

9425	Lewis later proposed the axioms at the intersection of the best theories (which may be few) [Mumford on Lewis]