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All the ideas for 'Dialektik', 'On the Nature of Mathematical Reasoning' and 'The Basing Relation'

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / d. Actual infinite

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Poincaré rejected the actual infinite, claiming definitions gave apparent infinity to finite objects [Poincaré, by Lavine]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs

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There are reasons 'for which' a belief is held, reasons 'why' it is believed, and reasons 'to' believe it [Neta]

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The basing relation of a reason to a belief should both support and explain the belief [Neta]

19. Language / E. Analyticity / 4. Analytic/Synthetic Critique

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Concepts are only analytic once the predicate is absorbed into the subject [Schleiermacher]