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All the ideas for 'works', 'What is an Idea?' and 'Mathematics and Indispensibility'

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4 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]

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

22181

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

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / e. Ontological commitment problems

9558	All scientific tests will verify mathematics, so it is a background, not something being tested [Sober]

18. Thought / C. Content / 2. Ideas

19423

By an 'idea' I mean not an actual thought, but the resources we can draw on to think [Leibniz]