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All the ideas for 'Realism in Mathematics', 'Counterfactual Dependence and Time's Arrow' and 'Law and Authority'

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6 ideas

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 7. Natural Sets

8755	Maddy replaces pure sets with just objects and perceived sets of objects [Maddy, by Shapiro]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 6. Mathematics as Set Theory / a. Mathematics is set theory

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A natural number is a property of sets [Maddy, by Oliver]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 2. Intuition of Mathematics

8756	Intuition doesn't support much mathematics, and we should question its reliability [Maddy, by Shapiro]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / a. Mathematical empiricism

17733

We know mind-independent mathematical truths through sets, which rest on experience [Maddy, by Jenkins]

25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 1. Grounds of equality

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Only liberty, equality and sympathy can stand up to anti-social people [Kropotkin]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 5. Direction of causation

8433	There are few traces of an event before it happens, but many afterwards [Lewis, by Horwich]