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All the ideas for 'The Roots of Reference', 'Sources of Knowledge of Mathematics' and 'Truth'

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6 ideas

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 2. Correspondence to Facts
10842 The fact which is stated by a true sentence is not something in the world [Strawson,P]
10843 Facts aren't exactly true statements, but they are what those statements say [Strawson,P]
3. Truth / F. Semantic Truth / 1. Tarski's Truth / a. Tarski's truth definition
10844 The statement that it is raining perfectly fits the fact that it is raining [Strawson,P]
3. Truth / F. Semantic Truth / 2. Semantic Truth
10841 The word 'true' always refers to a possible statement [Strawson,P]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / d. Logicism critique
9545 Late in life Frege abandoned logicism, and saw the source of arithmetic as geometrical [Frege, by Chihara]
8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived
14296 Dispositions are physical states of mechanism; when known, these replace the old disposition term [Quine]