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| 6814 | Instead of prayer and charity, sinners pursue vain disputes and want their own personal scripture [Mohammed] |
| 10170 | While true-in-a-model seems relative, true-in-all-models seems not to be [Reck/Price] |
| 10166 | ZFC set theory has only 'pure' sets, without 'urelements' [Reck/Price] |
| 10175 | Three types of variable in second-order logic, for objects, functions, and predicates/sets [Reck/Price] |
| 10165 | 'Analysis' is the theory of the real numbers [Reck/Price] |
| 10174 | Mereological arithmetic needs infinite objects, and function definitions [Reck/Price] |
| 10164 | Peano Arithmetic can have three second-order axioms, plus '1' and 'successor' [Reck/Price] |
| 10172 | Set-theory gives a unified and an explicit basis for mathematics [Reck/Price] |
| 10167 | Structuralism emerged from abstract algebra, axioms, and set theory and its structures [Reck/Price] |
| 10169 | Relativist Structuralism just stipulates one successful model as its arithmetic [Reck/Price] |
| 10179 | There are 'particular' structures, and 'universal' structures (what the former have in common) [Reck/Price] |
| 10181 | Pattern Structuralism studies what isomorphic arithmetic models have in common [Reck/Price] |
| 10182 | There are Formalist, Relativist, Universalist and Pattern structuralism [Reck/Price] |
| 10168 | Formalist Structuralism says the ontology is vacuous, or formal, or inference relations [Reck/Price] |
| 10178 | Maybe we should talk of an infinity of 'possible' objects, to avoid arithmetic being vacuous [Reck/Price] |
| 10176 | Universalist Structuralism is based on generalised if-then claims, not one particular model [Reck/Price] |
| 10177 | Universalist Structuralism eliminates the base element, as a variable, which is then quantified out [Reck/Price] |
| 10171 | The existence of an infinite set is assumed by Relativist Structuralism [Reck/Price] |
| 10173 | A nominalist might avoid abstract objects by just appealing to mereological sums [Reck/Price] |
| 24008 | Reference to a person's emotions is often essential to understanding their actions [Williams,B] |
| 24009 | Moral education must involve learning about various types of feeling towards things [Williams,B] |
| 24007 | Emotivism saw morality as expressing emotions, and influencing others' emotions [Williams,B] |
| 6823 | Repay evil with good and your enemies will become friends (though this is hard) [Mohammed] |
| 6828 | You may break off a treaty if you fear treachery from your ally [Mohammed] |
| 24010 | An admirable human being should have certain kinds of emotional responses [Williams,B] |
| 6826 | Allah rewards those who are devout, sincere, patient, humble, charitable, chaste, and who fast [Mohammed] |
| 6822 | Those who avenge themselves when wronged incur no guilt [Mohammed] |
| 24012 | Kant's love of consistency is too rigid, and it even overrides normal fairness [Williams,B] |
| 6833 | Punish theft in men or women by cutting off their hands [Mohammed] |
| 6825 | Do not kill except for a just cause [Mohammed] |
| 6832 | Killing a human, except as just punishment, is like killing all mankind [Mohammed] |
| 6811 | Allah is lord of creation, compassionate, merciful, king of judgement-day [Mohammed] |
| 6819 | True believers see that Allah made the night for rest and the day to give light [Mohammed] |
| 6818 | Allah cannot have begotten a son, as He is self-sufficient [Mohammed] |
| 6831 | He that kills a believer by design shall burn in Hell for ever [Mohammed] |
| 6829 | There shall be no compulsion in religion [Mohammed] |
| 6834 | Unbelievers try to interpret the ambiguous parts of the Koran, simply to create dissension [Mohammed] |
| 6817 | The Koran is certainly composed by Allah; no one could compose a chapter like it [Mohammed] |
| 6824 | Do not split into sects, exulting in separate beliefs [Mohammed] |
| 6821 | I created mankind that it might worship Me [Mohammed] |
| 6815 | Be patient with unbelievers, and leave them to the judgement of Allah [Mohammed] |
| 6827 | Make war on the unbelievers until Allah's religion reigns supreme [Mohammed] |
| 6820 | The righteous shall dwell on couches in gardens, wedded to dark-eyed houris [Mohammed] |
| 6812 | Heaven will be reclining on couches, eating fruit, attended by virgins [Mohammed] |
| 6830 | Unbelievers will have their skin repeatedly burned off in hell [Mohammed] |
| 6816 | The unbelievers shall drink boiling water [Mohammed] |