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All the ideas for 'Precis of 'Limits of Abstraction'', 'Substitutional Classes and Relations' and 'talk'

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2. Reason / D. Definition / 2. Aims of Definition

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Definitions concern how we should speak, not how things are [Fine,K]

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 / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 5. Definitions of Number / d. Hume's Principle

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If Hume's Principle can define numbers, we needn't worry about its truth [Fine,K]

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Hume's Principle is either adequate for number but fails to define properly, or vice versa [Fine,K]

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]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 3. Privacy

5210	We could know what a lion thinks by mapping both its brain patterns and its experiences [Douglas,A]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 7. Abstracta by Equivalence

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An abstraction principle should not 'inflate', producing more abstractions than objects [Fine,K]