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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Letters to Mersenne' and 'Precis of 'Limits of Abstraction''

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism

3653	My Meditations are the complete foundation of my physics [Descartes]

2. Reason / D. Definition / 2. Aims of Definition

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Definitions concern how we should speak, not how things are [Fine,K]

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 2. Defining Truth

4736	Truth is such a transcendentally clear notion that it cannot be further defined [Descartes]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 5. Definitions of Number / d. Hume's Principle

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If Hume's Principle can define numbers, we needn't worry about its truth [Fine,K]

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Hume's Principle is either adequate for number but fails to define properly, or vice versa [Fine,K]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 7. Abstracta by Equivalence

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An abstraction principle should not 'inflate', producing more abstractions than objects [Fine,K]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

468	Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / b. Soul

3652	I can't prove the soul is indestructible, only that it is separate from the mortal body [Descartes]