Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'later work', 'What Numbers Are' and 'Positivism and Realism'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics

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The empiricist says that metaphysics is meaningless, rather than false [Schlick]

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 6. Deconstruction

6840	Derrida came to believe in the undeconstructability of justice, which cannot be relativised [Derrida, by Critchley]

5. Theory of Logic / J. Model Theory in Logic / 3. Löwenheim-Skolem Theorems

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Löwenheim-Skolem says any theory with a true interpretation has a model in the natural numbers [White,NP]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / c. Counting procedure

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Finite cardinalities don't need numbers as objects; numerical quantifiers will do [White,NP]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / c. A unified people

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A community must consist of singular persons, with nothing in common [Derrida, by Glendinning]

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Can there be democratic friendship without us all becoming identical? [Derrida, by Glendinning]