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All the ideas for 'God and Human Attributes', 'Abstract Objects: a Case Study' and 'fragments/reports'

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9 ideas

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / c. Neo-logicism

10580

Mathematics is both necessary and a priori because it really consists of logical truths [Yablo]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 9. Fictional Mathematics

10579

Putting numbers in quantifiable position (rather than many quantifiers) makes expression easier [Yablo]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being

12270

Being is one [Melissus, by Aristotle]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 7. Abstract/Concrete / a. Abstract/concrete

10578

We are thought to know concreta a posteriori, and many abstracta a priori [Yablo]

10577

Concrete objects have few essential properties, but properties of abstractions are mostly essential [Yablo]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

3059	There is no real motion, only the appearance of it [Melissus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 1. Void

5100	The void is not required for change, because a plenum can alter in quality [Aristotle on Melissus]

27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 2. Eternal Universe

456	Nothing could come out of nothing [Melissus]

28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / c. Moral Argument

20713

God must be fit for worship, but worship abandons morally autonomy, but there is no God [Rachels, by Davies,B]