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All the ideas for 'Science and Method', 'Mathematical Truth' and 'Prolegomena to Ethics'

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7 ideas

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]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / a. Idealistic ethics

23035

The good life aims at perfections, or absolute laws, or what is absolutely desirable [Green,TH]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / c. Liberal equality

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People are improved by egalitarian institutions and habits [Green,TH]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / e. Liberal community

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All talk of the progress of a nation must reduce to the progress of its individual members [Green,TH]