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All the ideas for 'poems', 'Foundations of Geometry' and 'Intro to Oxford Hndbk of Metaphysics'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 6. Metaphysics as Conceptual

9217	Modern empirical metaphysics focuses on ontological commitments of discourse, or on presuppositions [Loux/Zimmerman]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 2. Geometry

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Hilbert aimed to eliminate number from geometry [Hilbert, by Hart,WD]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 3. Axioms for Geometry

9546	Euclid axioms concerns possibilities of construction, but Hilbert's assert the existence of objects [Hilbert, by Chihara]

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Hilbert's formalisation revealed implicit congruence axioms in Euclid [Hilbert, by Horsten/Pettigrew]

18217

Hilbert's geometry is interesting because it captures Euclid without using real numbers [Hilbert, by Field,H]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

6017	Nomos is king [Pindar]