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All the ideas for 'The Logical Form of Action Sentences', 'Community and Citizenship' and 'Mathematics and Philosophy: grand and little'

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / e. Philosophy as reason
9808 Philosophy aims to reveal the grandeur of mathematics [Badiou]
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 1. Mathematics
9812 In mathematics, if a problem can be formulated, it will eventually be solved [Badiou]
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / a. The Infinite
9813 Mathematics shows that thinking is not confined to the finite [Badiou]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being
9809 Mathematics inscribes being as such [Badiou]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence
9811 It is of the essence of being to appear [Badiou]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events
7771 We need 'events' to explain adverbs, which are adjectival predicates of events [Davidson, by Lycan]
8860 Language-learning is not good enough evidence for the existence of events [Yablo on Davidson]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / d. Commitment of theories
15002 If the best theory of adverbs refers to events, then our ontology should include events [Davidson, by Sider]
21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 8. The Arts / b. Literature
9814 All great poetry is engaged in rivalry with mathematics [Badiou]
24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 4. Citizenship
22817 Citizenship involves a group of mutually supporting rights, which create community and equality [Miller,D]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 14. Nationalism
22816 Socialists reject nationality as a false source of identity [Miller,D]