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All the ideas for 'Wang's Paradox', 'On the Concept of Number' and 'The Concept of Dread (/Anxiety)'

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7 ideas

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 7. Formalism

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Hilbert said (to block paradoxes) that mathematical existence is entailed by consistency [Hilbert, by Potter]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / b. Vagueness of reality

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To say reality itself is vague is not properly intelligible [Dummett]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / d. Weakness of will

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Socrates neglects the gap between knowing what is good and doing good [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 3. Angst

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Anxiety is not a passing mood, but a response to human freedom [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle]

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The ultimate in life is learning to be anxious in the right way [Kierkegaard]

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Ultimate knowledge is being anxious in the right way [Kierkegaard]

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Anxiety is staring into the yawning abyss of freedom [Kierkegaard]