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All the ideas for 'works', 'Proof that every set can be well-ordered' and 'Pragmatism and Objective Truth'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 1. Aims of Science

6782	Realism is the only philosophy of science that doesn't make the success of science a miracle [Putnam]

3. Truth / E. Pragmatic Truth / 1. Pragmatic Truth

19086

Does the pragmatic theory of meaning support objective truth, or make it impossible? [Macbeth]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / e. Countable infinity

15897

Zermelo realised that Choice would facilitate the sort of 'counting' Cantor needed [Zermelo, by Lavine]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 5. Definitions of Number / b. Greek arithmetic

19093

Greek mathematics is wholly sensory, where ours is wholly inferential [Macbeth]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism

22181

Putnam says anti-realism is a bad explanation of accurate predictions [Putnam, by Okasha]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

19091

Seeing reality mathematically makes it an object of thought, not of experience [Macbeth]

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 1. Concepts / a. Nature of concepts

19088

For pragmatists a concept means its consequences [Macbeth]