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All the ideas for 'The Courtier and the Heretic', 'Brandom on Social Practices and Representations' and 'Constructibility and Mathematical Existence'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy
19090 If we can't check our language against experience, philosophy is just comparing beliefs and words [Rorty]
4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 8. Critique of Set Theory
8758 We could talk of open sentences, instead of sets [Chihara, by Shapiro]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / b. Type theory
10265 Chihara's system is a variant of type theory, from which he can translate sentences [Chihara, by Shapiro]
8759 We can replace type theory with open sentences and a constructibility quantifier [Chihara, by Shapiro]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / a. Constructivism
10264 Introduce a constructibility quantifiers (Cx)Φ - 'it is possible to construct an x such that Φ' [Chihara, by Shapiro]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 10. Theocracy
7825 The politics of Leibniz was the reunification of Christianity [Stewart,M]