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All the ideas for 'Science and Method', 'Frege on Apriority' and 'Hat-Tricks and Heaps'

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5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 6. Paradoxes in Language / b. The Heap paradox ('Sorites')
The smallest heap has four objects: three on the bottom, one on the top [Hart,WD, by Sorensen]
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 2. Geometry
You can't simply convert geometry into algebra, as some spatial content is lost [Burge]
One geometry cannot be more true than another [Poincaré]