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All the ideas for 'Letters to William Molyneux', 'Constructibility and Mathematical Existence' and 'Brandom on Social Practices and Representations'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy

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If we can't check our language against experience, philosophy is just comparing beliefs and words [Rorty]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 8. Critique of Set Theory

8758	We could talk of open sentences, instead of sets [Chihara, by Shapiro]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / b. Type theory

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Chihara's system is a variant of type theory, from which he can translate sentences [Chihara, by Shapiro]

8759	We can replace type theory with open sentences and a constructibility quantifier [Chihara, by Shapiro]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / a. Constructivism

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Introduce a constructibility quantifiers (Cx)Φ - 'it is possible to construct an x such that Φ' [Chihara, by Shapiro]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 13. Nominal Essence

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Things have real essences, but we categorise them according to the ideas we receive [Locke]