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All the ideas for 'Precis of 'Limits of Abstraction'', 'Summa quaestionum super Sententias' and 'The Web of Belief'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 1. Nature of Analysis

8460	Philosophers have given precise senses to deduction, probability, computability etc [Quine/Ullian]

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]

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations

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Relations do not add anything to reality, though they are real aspects of the world [Olivi]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 4. Quantity of an Object

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Quantity just adds union and location to the extension of parts [Olivi]

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]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 5. Species

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Things are limited by the species to certain modes of being [Olivi]