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All the ideas for 'Posthumous notes', 'Logicism Revisited' and 'Substitutional Classes and Relations'

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2. Reason / D. Definition / 7. Contextual Definition
Any linguistic expression may lack meaning when taken out of context [Russell]
2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 8. Category Mistake / a. Category mistakes
'The number one is bald' or 'the number one is fond of cream cheese' are meaningless [Russell]
4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / p. Axiom of Reducibility
Axiom of Reducibility: there is always a function of the lowest possible order in a given level [Russell, by Bostock]
5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 3. If-Thenism
Perhaps If-thenism survives in mathematics if we stick to first-order logic [Musgrave]
The If-thenist view only seems to work for the axiomatised portions of mathematics [Musgrave]
5. Theory of Logic / I. Semantics of Logic / 3. Logical Truth
A statement is logically true if it comes out true in all interpretations in all (non-empty) domains [Musgrave]
Logical truths may contain non-logical notions, as in 'all men are men' [Musgrave]
6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 4. Axioms for Number / d. Peano arithmetic
No two numbers having the same successor relies on the Axiom of Infinity [Musgrave]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 7. Formalism
Formalism is a bulwark of logical positivism [Musgrave]
Formalism seems to exclude all creative, growing mathematics [Musgrave]
8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations
There is no complexity without relations, so no propositions, and no truth [Russell]
11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism
Transcendental philosophy is the subject becoming the originator of unified reality [Kant]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification
Logical positivists adopted an If-thenist version of logicism about numbers [Musgrave]