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All the ideas for 'Negative Dialectics', 'Letters to Frege' and 'Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Tractatus'

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12 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

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If philosophy could be summarised it would be pointless [Adorno]

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 3. Hermeneutics

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Interpreting a text is representing it as making sense [Morris,M]

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 1. Bivalence

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Bipolarity adds to Bivalence the capacity for both truth values [Morris,M]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 1. Quantification

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Conjunctive and disjunctive quantifiers are too specific, and are confined to the finite [Morris,M]

5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 5. Paradoxes in Set Theory / d. Russell's paradox

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Russell's Paradox is a stripped-down version of Cantor's Paradox [Priest,G on Russell]

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Russell's paradox means we cannot assume that every property is collectivizing [Potter on Russell]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / c. Counting procedure

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To count, we must distinguish things, and have a series with successors in it [Morris,M]

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Counting needs to distinguish things, and also needs the concept of a successor in a series [Morris,M]

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Discriminating things for counting implies concepts of identity and distinctness [Morris,M]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 11. Properties as Sets

9127	Russell refuted Frege's principle that there is a set for each property [Russell, by Sorensen]

18. Thought / C. Content / 6. Broad Content

7531	We don't assert private thoughts; the objects are part of what we assert [Russell]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions

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There must exist a general form of propositions, which are predictabe. It is: such and such is the case [Morris,M]