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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Centring' and 'Apriority and Existence'

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4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 4. Alethic Modal Logic
8859 The main modal logics disagree over three key formulae [Yablo]
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / a. Numbers
8865 If 'the number of Democrats is on the rise', does that mean that 50 million is on the rise? [Yablo]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / b. Indispensability of mathematics
8863 We must treat numbers as existing in order to express ourselves about the arrangement of planets [Yablo]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 9. Fictional Mathematics
8862 Platonic objects are really created as existential metaphors [Yablo]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / h. Dasein (being human)
8228 Being is revealed at the point between waking and sleep [Anon (Cent)]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 7. Fictionalism
8864 We quantify over events, worlds, etc. in order to make logical possibilities clearer [Yablo]
8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta
8858 Philosophers keep finding unexpected objects, like models, worlds, functions, numbers, events, sets, properties [Yablo]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 6. Constitution of an Object
6019 If someone squashed a horse to make a dog, something new would now exist [Mnesarchus]
15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 4. Other Minds / a. Other minds
8232 Neglect your self, and feel the consciousness of each other being [Anon (Cent)]
19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / d. Metaphor
8861 Hardly a word in the language is devoid of metaphorical potential [Yablo]
20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act
8230 Just as you have the impulse to do something, stop [Anon (Cent)]
25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 5. Freedom of lifestyle
8234 Bondage and liberation are relative terms, which only frighten those already terrified of the universe [Anon (Cent)]
29. Religion / C. Spiritual Disciplines / 4. Zen Buddhism
8227 Feel your whole body saturated with cosmic essence [Anon (Cent)]
8231 Abandon attachment to body, and feel the joy of being everywhere [Anon (Cent)]
8229 The serenity in blue sky beyond clouds [Anon (Cent)]
29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / a. Immortality
8233 Imagine fire burning up your whole body, but not you [Anon (Cent)]