Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Much Ado About Nothing', 'Consilience' and 'The Theory of Transfinite Numbers'

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy

8658	For there was never yet philosopher/ That could endure the toothache patiently [Shakespeare]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 1. Set Theory

9616	A set is a collection into a whole of distinct objects of our intuition or thought [Cantor]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / f. Uncountable infinities

15896

Cantor needed Power Set for the reals, but then couldn't count the new collections [Cantor, by Lavine]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / c. A unified people

20662

The biology of societies: kin selection, parenting, mating; status, territory, contracts [Wilson,EO]