Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Through the Looking Glass', 'The Poetics' and 'The Scope and Language of Science'

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6 ideas

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 6. Mathematics as Set Theory / a. Mathematics is set theory

8463	Maths can be reduced to logic and set theory [Quine]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing

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I only wish I had such eyes as to see Nobody! It's as much as I can do to see real people. [Carroll,L]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties

8461	The category of objects incorporates the old distinction of substances and their modes [Quine]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

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The actual must be possible, because it occurred [Aristotle]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 6. Conceptual Dualism

8462	A hallucination can, like an ague, be identified with its host; the ontology is physical, the idiom mental [Quine]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 8. The Arts / b. Literature

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Poetry is more philosophic than history, as it concerns universals, not particulars [Aristotle]