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All the ideas for 'Many Politics', 'Recent Debates on the A Priori' and 'Reference and Generality (3rd ed)'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 1. History of Ideas

21852

Nomads are the basis of history, and yet almost unknowable [Deleuze]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 1. Mathematics

9226	If mathematical theories conflict, it may just be that they have different subject matter [Field,H]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / d. Counting via concepts

12154

Are 'word token' and 'word type' different sorts of countable objects, or two ways of counting? [Geach, by Perry]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 6. Nihilism about Objects

8969	We should abandon absolute identity, confining it to within some category [Geach, by Hawthorne]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity

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Denial of absolute identity has drastic implications for logic, semantics and set theory [Wasserman on Geach]

12152

Identity is relative. One must not say things are 'the same', but 'the same A as' [Geach]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 8. Leibniz's Law

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Leibniz's Law is incomplete, since it includes a non-relativized identity predicate [Geach, by Wasserman]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 11. Capitalism

21853

We are currently extending capitalism to the whole of society [Deleuze]

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / a. Just wars

21851

The State requires self-preservation, but the war-machine desires destruction [Deleuze]