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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Letters to Russell' and 'Philosophy and Scientific Image of Man'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / c. Philosophy as generalisation

21829

Philosophy aims to understand how things (broadly understood) hang together (broadly understood) [Sellars]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / g. Real numbers

18253

I wish to go straight from cardinals to reals (as ratios), leaving out the rationals [Frege]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / a. Early logicism

18166

The loss of my Rule V seems to make foundations for arithmetic impossible [Frege]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction

6550	Reduction requires that an object's properties consist of its constituents' properties and relations [Sellars]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / c. Modern abstracta

18269

Logical objects are extensions of concepts, or ranges of values of functions [Frege]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism

3061	Anaxarchus said that he was not even sure that he knew nothing [Anaxarchus, by Diog. Laertius]