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All the ideas for 'The Philosophical Culture', 'works' and 'Spinoza's Ethics'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 5. Later European Thought

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Only in the 1780s did it become acceptable to read Spinoza [Lord]

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism

1489	Modern philosophy tends to be a theory-constructing extension of science, but there is also problem-solving [Nagel]

5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 2. History of Logic

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Gentzen introduced a natural deduction calculus (NK) in 1934 [Gentzen, by Read]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / a. Logical connectives

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The inferential role of a logical constant constitutes its meaning [Gentzen, by Hanna]

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The logical connectives are 'defined' by their introduction rules [Gentzen]

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Each logical symbol has an 'introduction' rule to define it, and hence an 'elimination' rule [Gentzen]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 4. Axioms for Number / g. Incompleteness of Arithmetic

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Gentzen proved the consistency of arithmetic from assumptions beyond arithmetic [Gentzen, by Musgrave]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 10. Conatus/Striving

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Hobbes and Spinoza use 'conatus' to denote all endeavour for advantage in nature [Lord]