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All the ideas for 'The Roots of Reference', 'Intuitionism and Formalism' and 'The Logic of Decision'

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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]

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 / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / b. Worlds as fictions

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A possible world can be seen as a complete and consistent novel [Jeffrey]

14. Science / C. Induction / 6. Bayes's Theorem

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Instead of gambling, Jeffrey made the objects of Bayesian preference to be propositions [Jeffrey, by Davidson]

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]