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All the ideas for 'Precis of 'Limits of Abstraction'', 'Capital Vol. 1' and '18: Book of Job'

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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]

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]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 9. Communism

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Must production determine superstructure, or could it be the other way round? [Singer on Marx]

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Even decently paid workers still have their produce bought with money stolen from them [Marx]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / a. Immortality

7469	There is no hereafter in the Book of Job [Anon (Job), by Watson]