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All the ideas for 'Lectures on the History of Philosophy', 'Preface to 'De Revolutionibus'' and 'Pragmatism and Objective Truth'

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6 ideas

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

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Philosophy is the conceptual essence of the shape of history [Hegel]

3. Truth / E. Pragmatic Truth / 1. Pragmatic Truth

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Does the pragmatic theory of meaning support objective truth, or make it impossible? [Macbeth]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 5. Definitions of Number / b. Greek arithmetic

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Greek mathematics is wholly sensory, where ours is wholly inferential [Macbeth]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

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Seeing reality mathematically makes it an object of thought, not of experience [Macbeth]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / e. Lawlike explanations

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Facts should be deducible from the theory and initial conditions, and prefer the simpler theory [Osiander, by Harré/Madden]

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 1. Concepts / a. Nature of concepts

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For pragmatists a concept means its consequences [Macbeth]