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All the ideas for 'Mental Models', 'On the Foundations of Logic and Arithmetic' and 'There is No A Priori (and reply)'

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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / c. Against mathematical empiricism
17697 The existence of an arbitrarily large number refutes the idea that numbers come from experience [Hilbert]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / d. Logicism critique
17698 Logic already contains some arithmetic, so the two must be developed together [Hilbert]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities
19565 How could the mind have a link to the necessary character of reality? [Devitt]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 11. Denying the A Priori
19564 Some knowledge must be empirical; naturalism implies that all knowledge is like that [Devitt]
14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 7. Scientific Models
3214 The models we use in reasoning may be more like perceptions than like language [Johnson-Laird]