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All the ideas for 'Science and Method', 'Frege on Apriority' and 'Intro to 'Philosophical Essays''

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy
Philosophers working like teams of scientists is absurd, yet isolation is hard [Cartwright,R]
2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence
A false proposition isn't truer because it is part of a coherent system [Cartwright,R]
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 2. Geometry
One geometry cannot be more true than another [Poincaré]
You can't simply convert geometry into algebra, as some spatial content is lost [Burge]