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All the ideas for 'Negative Dialectics', 'What Metaphors Mean' and 'Mathematics without Numbers'

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

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

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 7. Mathematical Structuralism / c. Nominalist structuralism

8698	Modal structuralism says mathematics studies possible structures, which may or may not be actualised [Hellman, by Friend]

9557	Statements of pure mathematics are elliptical for a sort of modal conditional [Hellman, by Chihara]

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Modal structuralism can only judge possibility by 'possible' models [Shapiro on Hellman]

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

7776	Metaphors just mean what their words literally mean [Davidson]

7777	We accept a metaphor when we see the sentence is false [Davidson]

7775	Understanding a metaphor is a creative act, with no rules [Davidson]