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All the ideas for 'Through the Looking Glass', 'The Theory of Transfinite Numbers' and 'Are Freedom and Equality Compatible?'

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8 ideas

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 1. Set Theory
9616 A set is a collection into a whole of distinct objects of our intuition or thought [Cantor]
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / f. Uncountable infinities
15896 Cantor needed Power Set for the reals, but then couldn't count the new collections [Cantor, by Lavine]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing
21982 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]
25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 5. Freedom of lifestyle
21733 The right-wing conception of freedom is based on the idea of self-ownership [Cohen,GA]
21739 Plenty of people have self-ownership, but still lack autonomy [Cohen,GA]
25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 4. Property rights
21734 It is plausible that no one has an initial right to own land and natural resources [Cohen,GA]
21736 It is doubtful whether any private property was originally acquired legitimately [Cohen,GA]
21735 Every thing which is now private started out as unowned [Cohen,GA]