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All the ideas for 'Precis of 'Limits of Abstraction'', 'Vague Identity: Evans misunderstood' and 'Contemporary Efficient Causation: Aristotelian themes'

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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]

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]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / d. Vagueness as linguistic

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Semantic vagueness involves alternative and equal precisifications of the language [Lewis]

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]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation

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Causation interests us because we want to explain change [Mumford]