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All the ideas for 'Works of Love', 'Letter to Bramhall' and 'Mathematical Truth'

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6 ideas

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

9935	Mathematical truth is always compromising between ordinary language and sensible epistemology [Benacerraf]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 1. Mathematical Platonism / b. Against mathematical platonism

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Realists have semantics without epistemology, anti-realists epistemology but bad semantics [Benacerraf, by Colyvan]

9936	The platonist view of mathematics doesn't fit our epistemology very well [Benacerraf]

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

16620

A chair is wood, and its shape is the form; it isn't 'compounded' of the matter and form [Hobbes]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism

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Essence is just an artificial word from logic, giving a way of thinking about substances [Hobbes]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love

15998

Perfect love is not in spite of imperfections; the imperfections must be loved as well [Kierkegaard]