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All the ideas for 'The Dappled World', 'Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy' and 'works'

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7 ideas

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 1. Mathematics

12427

All of mathematics is properties of the whole numbers [Kronecker]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / c. Priority of numbers

10091

God made the integers, all the rest is the work of man [Kronecker]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / a. Sense-data theory

6451	Visual sense data are an inner picture show which represents the world [Blackburn]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / b. Anti-reliabilism

2866	A true belief might be based on a generally reliable process that failed on this occasion [Blackburn]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

17503

Theories can never represent accurately, because their components are abstract [Cartwright,N, by Portides]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism

2864	The main objection to intuitionism in ethics is that intuition is a disguise for prejudice or emotion [Blackburn]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / i. Prescriptivism

2865	Critics of prescriptivism observe that it is consistent to accept an ethical verdict but refuse to be bound by it [Blackburn]