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All the ideas for 'Letter to Russell', 'Aenesidemus' and 'Farewell to Reality: fairytale physics'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined

7085	The main problem of philosophy is what can and cannot be thought and expressed [Wittgenstein, by Grayling]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / d. Logical atoms

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Atomic facts correspond to true elementary propositions [Wittgenstein]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism

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Consciousness is not entirely representational, because there are pains, and the self [Schulze, by Pinkard]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 4. Mental Propositions

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A thought is mental constituents that relate to reality as words do [Wittgenstein]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / b. Fields

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A 'field' is a property with a magnitude, distributed across all of space and time [Baggott]

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Fields can be 'scalar', or 'vector', or 'tensor', or 'spinor' [Baggott]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / b. Standard model

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The current standard model requires 61 particles [Baggott]