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All the ideas for 'Knowledge', 'Precis of 'Limits of Abstraction'' and 'Philosophical Grammar'

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2. Reason / D. Definition / 2. Aims of Definition
10528 Definitions concern how we should speak, not how things are [Fine,K]
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 1. Mathematics
18281 In mathematics everything is algorithm and nothing is meaning [Wittgenstein]
6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 5. Definitions of Number / d. Hume's Principle
10529 If Hume's Principle can define numbers, we needn't worry about its truth [Fine,K]
10530 Hume's Principle is either adequate for number but fails to define properly, or vice versa [Fine,K]
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / a. Reliable knowledge
19724 Belief is knowledge if it is true, certain, and obtained by a reliable process [Ramsey]
18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 7. Abstracta by Equivalence
10527 An abstraction principle should not 'inflate', producing more abstractions than objects [Fine,K]
21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 2. Aesthetic Attitude
6606 Consider: "Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful" [Wittgenstein]