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All the ideas for 'The Roots of Reference', 'What is Mathematical Truth?' and 'How to Make our Ideas Clear'

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6 ideas

3. Truth / E. Pragmatic Truth / 1. Pragmatic Truth

7661	Truth is the opinion fated to be ultimately agreed by all investigators [Peirce]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived

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Dispositions are physical states of mechanism; when known, these replace the old disposition term [Quine]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

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Mathematics eliminates possibility, as being simultaneous actuality in sets [Putnam]

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

19089

Our whole conception of an object is its possible practical consequences [Peirce]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / b. Elements of beliefs

7660	We are aware of beliefs, they appease our doubts, and they are rules of action, or habits [Peirce]

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

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Non-positivist verificationism says only take a hypothesis seriously if it is scientifically based and testable [Ladyman/Ross on Peirce]