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All the ideas for 'Good and Evil', 'Inventing Logical Necessity' and 'Mathematics, Science and Language'

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5 ideas

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

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Mathematics is a mental activity which does not use language [Brouwer, by Bostock]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / g. Applying mathematics

18118

Brouwer regards the application of mathematics to the world as somehow 'wicked' [Brouwer, by Bostock]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 6. Logical Necessity

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Logical necessity involves a decision about usage, and is non-realist and non-cognitive [Wright,C, by McFetridge]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism

7320	Holism cannot give a coherent account of scientific methodology [Wright,C, by Miller,A]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / a. Form of the Good

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'Good' is an attributive adjective like 'large', not predicative like 'red' [Geach, by Foot]