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All the ideas for 'Philosophical Explanations', 'Apology for Raymond Sebond' and 'Letters to Russell'

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 2. Wise People

6259	Why can't a wise man doubt everything? [Montaigne]

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 3. Wisdom Deflated

6263	No wisdom could make us comfortably walk a wide beam if it was high in the air [Montaigne]

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth

6258	Virtue is the distinctive mark of truth, and its greatest product [Montaigne]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / g. Real numbers

18253

I wish to go straight from cardinals to reals (as ratios), leaving out the rationals [Frege]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / a. Early logicism

18166

The loss of my Rule V seems to make foundations for arithmetic impossible [Frege]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality

6262	We lack some sense or other, and hence objects may have hidden features [Montaigne]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / c. Modern abstracta

18269

Logical objects are extensions of concepts, or ranges of values of functions [Frege]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / c. Aim of beliefs

3570	Maybe knowledge is belief which 'tracks' the truth [Nozick, by Williams,M]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 4. Tracking the Facts

2748	A true belief isn't knowledge if it would be believed even if false. It should 'track the truth' [Nozick, by Dancy,J]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism

6260	Sceptics say there is truth, but no means of making or testing lasting judgements [Montaigne]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / d. Location of mind

6261	The soul is in the brain, as shown by head injuries [Montaigne]