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All the ideas for 'Precis of 'Limits of Abstraction'', 'Toward a Philosophy of History' and 'Has Philosophy Lost Contact with People?'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 3. Wisdom Deflated

9764	Inspiration and social improvement need wisdom, but not professional philosophy [Quine]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 6. Hopes for Philosophy

9763	For a good theory of the world, we must focus on our flabby foundational vocabulary [Quine]

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

10528

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

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]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / h. Dasein (being human)

20752

For man, being is not what he is, but what he is going to be [Ortega y Gassett]

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

10527

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

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

20756

Instead of having a nature, man only has a history [Ortega y Gassett]