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All the ideas for 'Philosophy and Scientific Image of Man', 'Intuitionism and Formalism' and 'Letters to Johann Bernoulli'

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / c. Philosophy as generalisation

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Philosophy aims to understand how things (broadly understood) hang together (broadly understood) [Sellars]

4. Formal Logic / E. Nonclassical Logics / 7. Paraconsistency

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Our dislike of contradiction in logic is a matter of psychology, not mathematics [Brouwer]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / g. Applying mathematics

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Scientific laws largely rest on the results of counting and measuring [Brouwer]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / b. Intuitionism

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Intuitionists only accept denumerable sets [Brouwer]

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Neo-intuitionism abstracts from the reuniting of moments, to intuit bare two-oneness [Brouwer]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction

6550	Reduction requires that an object's properties consist of its constituents' properties and relations [Sellars]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / c. Monads

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A piece of flint contains something resembling perceptions and appetites [Leibniz]

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Entelechies are analogous to souls, as other minds are analogous to our own minds [Leibniz]

10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 4. Conceivable as Possible / c. Possible but inconceivable

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What we cannot imagine may still exist [Leibniz]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification

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Intuitonists in mathematics worried about unjustified assertion, as well as contradiction [Brouwer, by George/Velleman]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / e. Death

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Death is just the contraction of an animal [Leibniz]