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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Resemblance Nominalism and Russell's Regress' and 'Reals by Abstraction'

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined

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Even pointing a finger should only be done for a reason [Epictetus]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / g. Real numbers

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The real numbers may be introduced by abstraction as ratios of quantities [Hale, by Hale/Wright]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 2. Resemblance Nominalism

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Resemblance Nominalists say that resemblance explains properties (not the other way round) [Rodriquez-Pereyra]