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All the ideas for 'Precis of 'Limits of Abstraction'', 'Making Things Happen' and 'Reply to First Objections'

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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]

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]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 2. Unconscious Mind

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I can't be unaware of anything which is in me [Descartes]

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]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 5. Existence-Essence

3635	Essence must be known before we discuss existence [Descartes]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / a. Cosmological Proof

3634	We can't prove a first cause from our inability to grasp infinity [Descartes]