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All the ideas for 'Precis of 'Limits of Abstraction'', 'Making Things Happen' and 'Of liberty, Fate and God's grace'

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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]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities

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The complete concept of an individual includes contingent properties, as well as necessary ones [Leibniz]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / g. Causal explanations

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An explanation is a causal graph [Woodward,J, by Strevens]

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]