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All the ideas for 'Intro to Naming,Necessity and Natural Kinds', 'The Theory of Transfinite Numbers' and 'Zettel'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy
2626 A philosopher is outside any community of ideas [Wittgenstein]
2. Reason / D. Definition / 1. Definitions
5831 The new view is that "water" is a name, and has no definition [Schwartz,SP]
4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 1. Set Theory
9616 A set is a collection into a whole of distinct objects of our intuition or thought [Cantor]
5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / b. Names as descriptive
5829 We refer to Thales successfully by name, even if all descriptions of him are false [Schwartz,SP]
5830 The traditional theory of names says some of the descriptions must be correct [Schwartz,SP]
5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 6. Paradoxes in Language / a. The Liar paradox
6569 'This sentence is false' sends us in a looping search for its proposition [Wittgenstein, by Fogelin]
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / f. Uncountable infinities
15896 Cantor needed Power Set for the reals, but then couldn't count the new collections [Cantor, by Lavine]
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 2. Causal Justification
3790 Causes of beliefs are irrelevant to their contents [Wittgenstein]
18. Thought / C. Content / 8. Intension
5826 The intension of "lemon" is the conjunction of properties associated with it [Schwartz,SP]