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All the ideas for 'True Method in Philosophy and Theology', 'Mathematics without Foundations' and 'Interview with Baggini and Stangroom'

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4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 3. Types of Set / d. Infinite Sets

9944	We understand some statements about all sets [Putnam]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 1. Foundations for Mathematics

9937	I do not believe mathematics either has or needs 'foundations' [Putnam]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 4. Axioms for Number / a. Axioms for numbers

9939	It is conceivable that the axioms of arithmetic or propositional logic might be changed [Putnam]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / a. Mathematical empiricism

9940	Maybe mathematics is empirical in that we could try to change it [Putnam]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / b. Indispensability of mathematics

9941	Science requires more than consistency of mathematics [Putnam]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

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What is not active is nothing [Leibniz]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism

9943	You can't deny a hypothesis a truth-value simply because we may never know it! [Putnam]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / e. Death

6866	It is disturbing if we become unreal when we die, but if time is unreal, then we remain real after death [Le Poidevin]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 1. Existentialism

6867	Existentialism focuses on freedom and self-making, and insertion into the world [Le Poidevin]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / d. Time series

6865	A-theory says past, present, future and flow exist; B-theory says this just reports our perspective [Le Poidevin]