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All the ideas for 'Reason, Emotions and Good Life', 'A New Kind of Science' and 'Substitutional Classes and Relations'

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2. Reason / D. Definition / 7. Contextual Definition

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Any linguistic expression may lack meaning when taken out of context [Russell]

2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 8. Category Mistake / a. Category mistakes

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'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

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Axiom of Reducibility: there is always a function of the lowest possible order in a given level [Russell, by Bostock]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / g. Applying mathematics

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At one level maths and nature are very similar, suggesting some deeper origin [Wolfram]

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations

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There is no complexity without relations, so no propositions, and no truth [Russell]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / a. Practical reason

4316	Either all action is rational, or reason dominates, or reason is only concerned with means [Cottingham]

27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 4. Substantival Space

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Space and its contents seem to be one stuff - so space is the only existing thing [Wolfram]