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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Essential vs Accidental Properties' and 'Our Knowledge of Mathematical Objects'

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11 ideas

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / c. Neo-logicism

9224	Proceduralism offers a version of logicism with no axioms, or objects, or ontological commitment [Fine,K]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / a. Constructivism

9222	The objects and truths of mathematics are imperative procedures for their construction [Fine,K]

9223	My Proceduralism has one simple rule, and four complex rules [Fine,K]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / a. Hylomorphism

10938

The extremes of essentialism are that all properties are essential, or only very trivial ones [Rami]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences

10940

An 'individual essence' is possessed uniquely by a particular object [Rami]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 5. Essence as Kind

10939

'Sortal essentialism' says being a particular kind is what is essential [Rami]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities

10934

Unlosable properties are not the same as essential properties [Rami]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 3. Types of Necessity

10933

Physical possibility is part of metaphysical possibility which is part of logical possibility [Rami]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 2. Epistemic possibility

10932

If it is possible 'for all I know' then it is 'epistemically possible' [Rami]

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / b. Education principles

13304

Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / d. Time as measure

20820

Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus]