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All the ideas for 'Stipulation, Meaning and Apriority', 'Fifteen Sermons' and 'Mathematics and Philosophy: grand and little'

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14 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / e. Philosophy as reason

9808	Philosophy aims to reveal the grandeur of mathematics [Badiou]

2. Reason / D. Definition / 13. Against Definition

9331	How do we determine which of the sentences containing a term comprise its definition? [Horwich]

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

9812	In mathematics, if a problem can be formulated, it will eventually be solved [Badiou]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / a. The Infinite

9813	Mathematics shows that thinking is not confined to the finite [Badiou]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being

9809	Mathematics inscribes being as such [Badiou]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

9811	It is of the essence of being to appear [Badiou]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 1. Nature of the A Priori

9333	A priori belief is not necessarily a priori justification, or a priori knowledge [Horwich]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 6. A Priori from Reason

9342	Understanding needs a priori commitment [Horwich]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 8. A Priori as Analytic

9332	Meaning is generated by a priori commitment to truth, not the other way around [Horwich]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 9. A Priori from Concepts

9341	Meanings and concepts cannot give a priori knowledge, because they may be unacceptable [Horwich]

9334	If we stipulate the meaning of 'number' to make Hume's Principle true, we first need Hume's Principle [Horwich]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 10. A Priori as Subjective

9339	A priori knowledge (e.g. classical logic) may derive from the innate structure of our minds [Horwich]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 8. The Arts / b. Literature

9814	All great poetry is engaged in rivalry with mathematics [Badiou]

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

8066	Butler exalts conscience, but it may be horribly misleading [Anscombe on Butler]