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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Spinoza's Ethics' and 'Constructibility and Mathematical Existence'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 5. Later European Thought

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Only in the 1780s did it become acceptable to read Spinoza [Lord]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 8. Critique of Set Theory

8758	We could talk of open sentences, instead of sets [Chihara, by Shapiro]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / b. Type theory

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Chihara's system is a variant of type theory, from which he can translate sentences [Chihara, by Shapiro]

8759	We can replace type theory with open sentences and a constructibility quantifier [Chihara, by Shapiro]

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

10264

Introduce a constructibility quantifiers (Cx)Φ - 'it is possible to construct an x such that Φ' [Chihara, by Shapiro]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 10. Conatus/Striving

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Hobbes and Spinoza use 'conatus' to denote all endeavour for advantage in nature [Lord]

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

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