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All the ideas for 'Science and Method', 'Mathematical Truth' and 'talk'

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6 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 3. Value of Logic

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Set theory and logic are fairy tales, but still worth studying [Tarski]

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

9935	Mathematical truth is always compromising between ordinary language and sensible epistemology [Benacerraf]

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

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One geometry cannot be more true than another [Poincaré]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 1. Mathematical Platonism / b. Against mathematical platonism

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Realists have semantics without epistemology, anti-realists epistemology but bad semantics [Benacerraf, by Colyvan]

9936	The platonist view of mathematics doesn't fit our epistemology very well [Benacerraf]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / a. Nominalism

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I am a deeply convinced nominalist [Tarski]