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All the ideas for 'At the Existentialist Café', 'Realism in Mathematics' and 'Letter to Weber'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 2. Phenomenology
21238 Later phenomenologists tried hard to incorporate social relationships [Bakewell]
21237 Phenomenology begins from the immediate, rather than from axioms and theories [Bakewell]
4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 7. Natural Sets
8755 Maddy replaces pure sets with just objects and perceived sets of objects [Maddy, by Shapiro]
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / i. Reals from cuts
18244 I say the irrational is not the cut itself, but a new creation which corresponds to the cut [Dedekind]
6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 6. Mathematics as Set Theory / a. Mathematics is set theory
10718 A natural number is a property of sets [Maddy, by Oliver]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 2. Intuition of Mathematics
8756 Intuition doesn't support much mathematics, and we should question its reliability [Maddy, by Shapiro]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / a. Mathematical empiricism
17733 We know mind-independent mathematical truths through sets, which rest on experience [Maddy, by Jenkins]