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All the ideas for 'Predest.,God's foreknowledge and contingents', 'Difficulties of Transfinite Numbers and Types' and 'On 'Generation and Corruption''

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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / d. Predicativism
We need rules for deciding which norms are predicative (unless none of them are) [Russell]
'Predicative' norms are those which define a class [Russell]
7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism
Our words and concepts don't always correspond to what is out there [William of Ockham]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / f. Ancient elements
Elements are found last in dismantling bodies, and first in generating them [Albert of Saxony]