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All the ideas for 'works', 'Logical Foundations of Probability' and 'The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap'

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4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / j. Axiom of Choice IX

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Choice suggests that intensions are not needed to ensure classes [Coffa]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 8. A Priori as Analytic

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The semantic tradition aimed to explain the a priori semantically, not by Kantian intuition [Coffa]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 11. Denying the A Priori

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Platonism defines the a priori in a way that makes it unknowable [Coffa]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 1. Explanation / b. Aims of explanation

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Good explications are exact, fruitful, simple and similar to the explicandum [Carnap, by Salmon]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 5. Generalisation by mind

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Mathematics generalises by using variables [Coffa]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

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The most important aspect of a human being is not reason, but passion [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / a. Absolute time

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Relativity is as absolutist about space-time as Newton was about space [Coffa]