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All the ideas for 'Purifications (frags)', 'Mathematics and Philosophy: grand and little' and 'Varieties of Causation'

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10 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]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 12. Essential Parts

8443	Mereological essentialism says an entity must have exactly those parts [Sosa]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 8. The Arts / b. Literature

9814	All great poetry is engaged in rivalry with mathematics [Badiou]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / b. Nomological causation

8442	What law would explain causation in the case of causing a table to come into existence? [Sosa]

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

8445	The necessitated is not always a result or consequence of the necessitator [Sosa]

8444	Where is the necessary causation in the three people being tall making everybody tall? [Sosa]