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All the ideas for 'talk', 'On the Question of Absolute Undecidability' and 'Categories, Classification, Cogn. Anthropology'

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4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 1. Set Theory

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Mathematical set theory has many plausible stopping points, such as finitism, and predicativism [Koellner]

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'Reflection principles' say the whole truth about sets can't be captured [Koellner]

5. Theory of Logic / K. Features of Logics / 5. Incompleteness

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We have no argument to show a statement is absolutely undecidable [Koellner]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / i. Cardinal infinity

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There are at least eleven types of large cardinal, of increasing logical strength [Koellner]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 4. Axioms for Number / d. Peano arithmetic

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PA is consistent as far as we can accept, and we expand axioms to overcome limitations [Koellner]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 4. Axioms for Number / g. Incompleteness of Arithmetic

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Arithmetical undecidability is always settled at the next stage up [Koellner]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 2. Categorisation

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Several words may label a category; one word can name several categories; some categories lack words [Ellen]

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

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