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All the ideas for 'works', 'Matter and Motion Cannot Think' and 'Anselm and Actuality'

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8 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 1. On Reason

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For clear questions posed by reason, reason can also find clear answers [Gödel]

4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 4. Alethic Modal Logic

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For modality Lewis rejected boxes and diamonds, preferring worlds, and an index for the actual one [Lewis, by Stalnaker]

5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 7. Second-Order Logic

9188	Gödel proved that first-order logic is complete, and second-order logic incomplete [Gödel, by Dummett]

5. Theory of Logic / I. Semantics of Logic / 2. Formal Truth

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Originally truth was viewed with total suspicion, and only demonstrability was accepted [Gödel]

5. Theory of Logic / K. Features of Logics / 5. Incompleteness

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Gödel's Theorems did not refute the claim that all good mathematical questions have answers [Gödel, by Koellner]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 4. Axioms for Number / g. Incompleteness of Arithmetic

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Gödel eventually hoped for a generalised completeness theorem leaving nothing undecidable [Gödel, by Koellner]

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The real reason for Incompleteness in arithmetic is inability to define truth in a language [Gödel]

17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 3. Panpsychism

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That all matter thinks is absurd, and would make each part of our bodies a distinct self-consciousness [Bentley]