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All the ideas for 'poems', 'talk' and 'Logicism and Ontological Commits. of Arithmetic'

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3. Truth / F. Semantic Truth / 2. Semantic Truth

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Truth in a model is more tractable than the general notion of truth [Hodes]

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Truth is quite different in interpreted set theory and in the skeleton of its language [Hodes]

5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 7. Second-Order Logic

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Higher-order logic may be unintelligible, but it isn't set theory [Hodes]

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 4. Identity in Logic

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Identity is a level one relation with a second-order definition [Hodes]

5. Theory of Logic / I. Semantics of Logic / 1. Semantics of Logic

10016

When an 'interpretation' creates a model based on truth, this doesn't include Fregean 'sense' [Hodes]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / a. Numbers

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Mathematics is higher-order modal logic [Hodes]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / f. Arithmetic

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Arithmetic must allow for the possibility of only a finite total of objects [Hodes]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 1. Mathematical Platonism / a. For mathematical platonism

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It is claimed that numbers are objects which essentially represent cardinality quantifiers [Hodes]

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Numerical terms can't really stand for quantifiers, because that would make them first-level [Hodes]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 7. Fictionalism

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Talk of mirror images is 'encoded fictions' about real facts [Hodes]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

6017	Nomos is king [Pindar]

23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 1. Ethical Egoism

3031	The greatest good is not the achievement of desire, but to desire what is proper [Menedemus, by Diog. Laertius]