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All the ideas for 'Review of Frege's 'Grundlagen'', 'Letters to Fardella' and 'The Empirical Stance'

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy

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Philosophy is a value- and attitude-driven enterprise [Fraassen]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 2. Possibility of Metaphysics

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Is it likely that a successful, coherent, explanatory ontological hypothesis is true? [Fraassen]

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 1. Nature of Analysis

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Analytic philosophy has an exceptional arsenal of critical tools [Fraassen]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence

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We may end up with a huge theory of carefully constructed falsehoods [Fraassen]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 5. Definitions of Number / c. Fregean numbers

9992	The 'extension of a concept' in general may be quantitatively completely indeterminate [Cantor]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic

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The soul is not a substance but a substantial form, the first active faculty [Leibniz]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 3. Best Explanation / c. Against best explanation

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Inference to best explanation contains all sorts of hidden values [Fraassen]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 4. Explanation Doubts / a. Explanation as pragmatic

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We accept many scientific theories without endorsing them as true [Fraassen]