Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Necessary Existents', 'Understanding' and 'Vagaries of Definition'

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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 6. Mathematics as Set Theory / a. Mathematics is set theory

8203	All the arithmetical entities can be reduced to classes of integers, and hence to sets [Quine]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

19691

Unlike knowledge, you can achieve understanding through luck [Grimm]

19690

'Grasping' a structure seems to be modal, because we must anticipate its behaviour [Grimm]

19692

You may have 'weak' understanding, if by luck you can answer a set of 'why questions' [Grimm]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 10. Denial of Meanings

8202	Meaning is essence divorced from things and wedded to words [Quine]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 3. Concrete Propositions

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Propositions (such as 'that dog is barking') only exist if their items exist [Williamson]

19. Language / E. Analyticity / 4. Analytic/Synthetic Critique

8201	The distinction between meaning and further information is as vague as the essence/accident distinction [Quine]