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All the ideas for 'works', 'Existence,Ontological Commitment and Fictions' and 'Recent Debates on the A Priori'

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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]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 8. Critique of Set Theory

8972	What in the real world could ground the distinction between the sets {A,{A,B}} and {B,{A,B}}? [Inwagen]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 1. Mathematics

9226	If mathematical theories conflict, it may just be that they have different subject matter [Field,H]

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

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