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All the ideas for 'The Roots of Reference', 'The Thesis that Mathematics is Logic' and 'Sources of Knowledge of Mathematics'

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5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 3. If-Thenism

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Putnam coined the term 'if-thenism' [Putnam, by Musgrave]

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

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