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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap' and 'Elimination of Metaphysics by Analysis of Language'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics

16252

Metaphysics uses empty words, or just produces pseudo-statements [Carnap]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / j. Axiom of Choice IX

18270

Choice suggests that intensions are not needed to ensure classes [Coffa]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 8. A Priori as Analytic

18263

The semantic tradition aimed to explain the a priori semantically, not by Kantian intuition [Coffa]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 11. Denying the A Priori

18272

Platonism defines the a priori in a way that makes it unknowable [Coffa]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 5. Generalisation by mind

18266

Mathematics generalises by using variables [Coffa]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / a. Absolute time

18279

Relativity is as absolutist about space-time as Newton was about space [Coffa]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]