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All the ideas for 'A World of States of Affairs', 'Protrepticus (frags)' and 'Intuitionism and Formalism'

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / d. Philosophy as puzzles

17949

Inquiry is the cause of philosophy [Aristotle]

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth

4742	Correspondence may be one-many or many one, as when either p or q make 'p or q' true [Armstrong]

4. Formal Logic / E. Nonclassical Logics / 7. Paraconsistency

12452

Our dislike of contradiction in logic is a matter of psychology, not mathematics [Brouwer]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / g. Applying mathematics

12451

Scientific laws largely rest on the results of counting and measuring [Brouwer]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / b. Intuitionism

12454

Intuitionists only accept denumerable sets [Brouwer]

12453

Neo-intuitionism abstracts from the reuniting of moments, to intuit bare two-oneness [Brouwer]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 7. Fictionalism

9497	Without modality, Armstrong falls back on fictionalism to support counterfactual laws [Bird on Armstrong]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties

15550

Properties are contingently existing beings with multiple locations in space and time [Armstrong, by Lewis]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity

4743	The truth-maker for a truth must necessitate that truth [Armstrong]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification

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Intuitonists in mathematics worried about unjustified assertion, as well as contradiction [Brouwer, by George/Velleman]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

4798	In recent writings, Armstrong makes a direct identification of necessitation with causation [Armstrong, by Psillos]