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All the ideas for 'Science and Method', 'The Tragic Sense of Life' and 'The philosophical basis of intuitionist logic'

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4. Formal Logic / E. Nonclassical Logics / 2. Intuitionist Logic

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Dummett says classical logic rests on meaning as truth, while intuitionist logic rests on assertability [Dummett, by Kitcher]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 1. Quantification

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Classical quantification is an infinite conjunction or disjunction - but you may not know all the instances [Dummett]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 2. Geometry

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One geometry cannot be more true than another [Poincaré]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions

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Stating a sentence's truth-conditions is just paraphrasing the sentence [Dummett]

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If a sentence is effectively undecidable, we can never know its truth conditions [Dummett]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use

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Meaning as use puts use beyond criticism, and needs a holistic view of language [Dummett]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / a. Human distinctiveness

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Maybe humans are distinguished from other animals by feelings, rather than reason [Unamuno]