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All the ideas for 'Gilles Deleuze', 'Sources of Knowledge of Mathematics' and 'Go Figure: a Path through Fictionalism'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy
Deleuze relies on Spinoza (immanence), Bergson (duration), and difference (Nietzsche) [May]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / d. Logicism critique
Late in life Frege abandoned logicism, and saw the source of arithmetic as geometrical [Frege, by Chihara]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 7. Fictionalism
Fictionalism allows that simulated beliefs may be tracking real facts [Yablo]
10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / b. Worlds as fictions
Governing possible worlds theory is the fiction that if something is possible, it happens in a world [Yablo]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 1. Existentialism
For existentialists the present is empty without the pull of the future and weight of the past [May]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / a. Liberalism basics
Liberal theory starts from the governed, not from the governor [May]