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All the ideas for 'Precis of 'Limits of Abstraction'', 'Against Barbaric physics' and 'Conceptions of Truth'

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2. Reason / D. Definition / 2. Aims of Definition
10528 Definitions concern how we should speak, not how things are [Fine,K]
2. Reason / D. Definition / 12. Paraphrase
18491 The idea of 'making' can be mere conceptual explanation (like 'because') [Künne]
6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 5. Definitions of Number / d. Hume's Principle
10529 If Hume's Principle can define numbers, we needn't worry about its truth [Fine,K]
10530 Hume's Principle is either adequate for number but fails to define properly, or vice versa [Fine,K]
18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 7. Abstracta by Equivalence
10527 An abstraction principle should not 'inflate', producing more abstractions than objects [Fine,K]
27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / c. Forces
16709 Some people return to scholastic mysterious qualities, disguising them as 'forces' [Leibniz]