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All the ideas for 'What Price Bivalence?', 'Intro to 'Provenance of Pure Reason'' and 'Has Philosophy Lost Contact with People?'

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1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 3. Wisdom Deflated

9764	Inspiration and social improvement need wisdom, but not professional philosophy [Quine]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 6. Hopes for Philosophy

9763	For a good theory of the world, we must focus on our flabby foundational vocabulary [Quine]

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 1. Bivalence

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Bivalence applies not just to sentences, but that general terms are true or false of each object [Quine]

5. Theory of Logic / K. Features of Logics / 1. Axiomatisation

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Mathematics must be based on axioms, which are true because they are axioms, not vice versa [Tait, by Parsons,C]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / d. Vagueness as linguistic

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Terms learned by ostension tend to be vague, because that must be quick and unrefined [Quine]