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All the ideas for 'Folk Psychology', 'Reals by Abstraction' and 'The Absurd'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy
3269 If your life is to be meaningful as part of some large thing, the large thing must be meaningful [Nagel]
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / g. Real numbers
10632 The real numbers may be introduced by abstraction as ratios of quantities [Hale, by Hale/Wright]
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 8. Social Justification
3270 Justifications come to an end when we want them to [Nagel]
18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 4. Folk Psychology
7518 If folk psychology gives a network of causal laws, that fits neatly with functionalism [Churchland,PM]
7520 Folk psychology never makes any progress, and is marginalised by modern science [Churchland,PM]
7519 Many mental phenomena are totally unexplained by folk psychology [Churchland,PM]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 2. Nihilism
3268 If a small brief life is absurd, then so is a long and large one [Nagel]