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All the ideas for 'Through the Looking Glass', 'On the Natural Faculties' and 'Pragmatism and Objective Truth'

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3. Truth / E. Pragmatic Truth / 1. Pragmatic Truth

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Does the pragmatic theory of meaning support objective truth, or make it impossible? [Macbeth]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 5. Definitions of Number / b. Greek arithmetic

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Greek mathematics is wholly sensory, where ours is wholly inferential [Macbeth]

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]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

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Seeing reality mathematically makes it an object of thought, not of experience [Macbeth]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 1. Faculties

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We just use the word 'faculty' when we don't know the psychological cause [Galen]

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 1. Concepts / a. Nature of concepts

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For pragmatists a concept means its consequences [Macbeth]