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All the ideas for 'talk', 'fragments/reports' and 'On the Question of Absolute Undecidability'

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8 ideas

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

17884

Mathematical set theory has many plausible stopping points, such as finitism, and predicativism [Koellner]

17893

'Reflection principles' say the whole truth about sets can't be captured [Koellner]

5. Theory of Logic / K. Features of Logics / 5. Incompleteness

17894

We have no argument to show a statement is absolutely undecidable [Koellner]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / i. Cardinal infinity

17890

There are at least eleven types of large cardinal, of increasing logical strength [Koellner]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 4. Axioms for Number / d. Peano arithmetic

17887

PA is consistent as far as we can accept, and we expand axioms to overcome limitations [Koellner]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 4. Axioms for Number / g. Incompleteness of Arithmetic

17891

Arithmetical undecidability is always settled at the next stage up [Koellner]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention

1556	By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / a. Nature of virtue

467	A virtue is a combination of intelligence, strength and luck [Ion]