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All the ideas for 'works', 'Wang's Paradox' and 'The Philosophy of Logic'

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6 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 2. Excluded Middle

7334	Anti-realism needs an intuitionist logic with no law of excluded middle [Dummett, by Miller,A]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / i. Cardinal infinity

18200

Very large sets should be studied in an 'if-then' spirit [Putnam]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / b. Indispensability of mathematics

18199

Indispensability strongly supports predicative sets, and somewhat supports impredicative sets [Putnam]

8857	We must quantify over numbers for science; but that commits us to their existence [Putnam]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism

3303	For anti-realists there are no natural distinctions between objects [Dummett, by Benardete,JA]

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

21628

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