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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'What is Mathematical Truth?' and 'There Are No Abstract Objects'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined

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Even pointing a finger should only be done for a reason [Epictetus]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta

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Call 'nominalism' the denial of numbers, properties, relations and sets [Dorr]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 5. Class Nominalism

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Natural Class Nominalism says there are primitive classes of things resembling in one respect [Dorr]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity

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Abstracta imply non-logical brute necessities, so only nominalists can deny such things [Dorr]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

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Mathematics eliminates possibility, as being simultaneous actuality in sets [Putnam]