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All the ideas for 'Lectures on Ethics', 'Brandom on Social Practices and Representations' and 'On the Nature of Mathematical Reasoning'

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

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If we can't check our language against experience, philosophy is just comparing beliefs and words [Rorty]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / d. Actual infinite

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Poincaré rejected the actual infinite, claiming definitions gave apparent infinity to finite objects [Poincaré, by Lavine]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 4. Suicide

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The maxim for suicide is committed to the value of life, and is thus contradictory [Kant]