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All the ideas for 'The Courtier and the Heretic', 'The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap' and 'Abduction and Induction'

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4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / j. Axiom of Choice IX

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Choice suggests that intensions are not needed to ensure classes [Coffa]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 8. A Priori as Analytic

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The semantic tradition aimed to explain the a priori semantically, not by Kantian intuition [Coffa]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 11. Denying the A Priori

18272

Platonism defines the a priori in a way that makes it unknowable [Coffa]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 3. Best Explanation / a. Best explanation

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'Abduction' is beginning a hypothesis, particularly if it includes preference of one explanation over others [Peirce]

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Abduction involves original suggestions, and not just the testing involved in induction [Peirce]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 5. Generalisation by mind

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Mathematics generalises by using variables [Coffa]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 10. Theocracy

7825	The politics of Leibniz was the reunification of Christianity [Stewart,M]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / a. Absolute time

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Relativity is as absolutist about space-time as Newton was about space [Coffa]