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All the ideas for 'Letter to Peter Wilhelm Lund', 'Interview with Baggini and Stangroom' and 'works'

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7 ideas

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 8. Subjective Truth

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I recognise knowledge, but it is the truth by which I can live and die that really matters [Kierkegaard]

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

8717	Hilbert wanted to prove the consistency of all of mathematics (which realists take for granted) [Hilbert, by Friend]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 7. Formalism

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The grounding of mathematics is 'in the beginning was the sign' [Hilbert]

10115

Hilbert substituted a syntactic for a semantic account of consistency [Hilbert, by George/Velleman]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 8. Finitism

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Hilbert aimed to prove the consistency of mathematics finitely, to show infinities won't produce contradictions [Hilbert, by George/Velleman]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism

6853	Consequentialism wrongly assumes a clear line between an act and its consequences [Crisp,R]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 4. Ecology

6854	Does the environment have value in itself? [Crisp,R]