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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Logicism, Some Considerations (PhD)' and 'Intro to Classical Chinese Philosophy'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 2. Ancient Thought

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The Dao (Way) first means the road, and comes to mean the right way to live [Norden]

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 3. Hermeneutics

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The hermeneutic circle is either within the text, or between text and biased reader [Norden]

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Heremeneutics is either 'faith' (examining truth) or 'suspicion' (looking for hidden motives) [Norden]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / a. Numbers

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Obtaining numbers by abstraction is impossible - there are too many; only a rule could give them, in order [Benacerraf]

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We must explain how we know so many numbers, and recognise ones we haven't met before [Benacerraf]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / c. Priority of numbers

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If numbers are basically the cardinals (Frege-Russell view) you could know some numbers in isolation [Benacerraf]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 7. Mathematical Structuralism / a. Structuralism

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An adequate account of a number must relate it to its series [Benacerraf]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention

1556	By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]