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All the ideas for 'Law and Causality', 'There is no a Priori' and 'Grundlagen (Foundations of Theory of Manifolds)'

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4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 1. Set Theory

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Cantor developed sets from a progression into infinity by addition, multiplication and exponentiation [Cantor, by Lavine]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / e. Ordinal numbers

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Ordinals are generated by endless succession, followed by a limit ordinal [Cantor, by Lavine]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / d. Non-truthfunction conditionals

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Ramsey's Test: believe the consequent if you believe the antecedent [Ramsey, by Read]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / e. Supposition conditionals

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Asking 'If p, will q?' when p is uncertain, then first add p hypothetically to your knowledge [Ramsey]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities

9354	Why should necessities only be knowable a priori? That Hesperus is Phosporus is known empirically [Devitt]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 9. A Priori from Concepts

9353	We explain away a priori knowledge, not as directly empirical, but as indirectly holistically empirical [Devitt]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 11. Denying the A Priori

9356	The idea of the a priori is so obscure that it won't explain anything [Devitt]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 8. Ramsey Sentences

6894	Mental terms can be replaced in a sentence by a variable and an existential quantifier [Ramsey]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / b. Best system theory

9418	All knowledge needs systematizing, and the axioms would be the laws of nature [Ramsey]

9420	Causal laws result from the simplest axioms of a complete deductive system [Ramsey]