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4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 4. Alethic Modal Logic

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For modality Lewis rejected boxes and diamonds, preferring worlds, and an index for the actual one [Lewis, by Stalnaker]

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]

29. Religion / A. Polytheistic Religion / 2. Greek Polytheism

9287	Bruno said that ancient Egyptian magic was the true religion [Bruno, by Yates]