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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Emperor's New 'Knows'' and 'The Philosophy of Logic'

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

18200

Very large sets should be studied in an 'if-then' spirit [Putnam]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / b. Indispensability of mathematics

18199

Indispensability strongly supports predicative sets, and somewhat supports impredicative sets [Putnam]

8857	We must quantify over numbers for science; but that commits us to their existence [Putnam]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / b. Invariantism

12900

How could 'S knows he has hands' not have a fixed content? [Bach]

12901

If contextualism is right, knowledge sentences are baffling out of their context [Bach]

12902

Sceptics aren't changing the meaning of 'know', but claiming knowing is tougher than we think [Bach]

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 / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

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