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All the ideas for 'reports', 'Apriority and Existence' and 'The Theory of Relativity and A Priori Knowledge'

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4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 4. Alethic Modal Logic

8859	The main modal logics disagree over three key formulae [Yablo]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / a. Numbers

8865	If 'the number of Democrats is on the rise', does that mean that 50 million is on the rise? [Yablo]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / b. Indispensability of mathematics

8863	We must treat numbers as existing in order to express ourselves about the arrangement of planets [Yablo]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 9. Fictional Mathematics

8862	Platonic objects are really created as existential metaphors [Yablo]

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

8864	We quantify over events, worlds, etc. in order to make logical possibilities clearer [Yablo]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta

8858	Philosophers keep finding unexpected objects, like models, worlds, functions, numbers, events, sets, properties [Yablo]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 5. Interpretation

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Kant showed that our perceptions are partly constructed from our concepts [Reichenbach]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / d. Metaphor

8861	Hardly a word in the language is devoid of metaphorical potential [Yablo]

25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / c. Deterrence of crime

1743	The greatest deterrence for injustice is if uninjured parties feel as much indignation as those who are injured [Solon, by Diog. Laertius]