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All the ideas for 'Essays on Intellectual Powers: Conception', 'fragments/reports' and 'Reals by Abstraction'

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / g. Real numbers

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The real numbers may be introduced by abstraction as ratios of quantities [Hale, by Hale/Wright]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 4. Essence as Definition

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Objects have an essential constitution, producing its qualities, which we are too ignorant to define [Reid]

10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 4. Conceivable as Possible / b. Conceivable but impossible

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Impossibilites are easily conceived in mathematics and geometry [Reid, by Molnar]

19. Language / B. Reference / 1. Reference theories

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Reference is by name, or a term-plus-circumstance, or ostensively, or by description [Reid]

19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / c. Social reference

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A word's meaning is the thing conceived, as fixed by linguistic experts [Reid]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 6. Animal Rights

6005	Animals are dangerous and nourishing, and can't form contracts of justice [Hermarchus, by Sedley]