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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Logic of Boundaryless Concepts' and 'Apriority and Existence'

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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]

4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 4. Alethic Modal Logic

8859	The main modal logics disagree over three key formulae [Yablo]

5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 3. Value of Logic

9390	Logic guides thinking, but it isn't a substitute for it [Rumfitt]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / a. Numbers

8865	If 'the number of Democrats is on the rise', does that mean that 50 million is on the rise? [Yablo]

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

8863	We must treat numbers as existing in order to express ourselves about the arrangement of planets [Yablo]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 9. Fictional Mathematics

8862	Platonic objects are really created as existential metaphors [Yablo]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 7. Fictionalism

8864	We quantify over events, worlds, etc. in order to make logical possibilities clearer [Yablo]

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

8858	Philosophers keep finding unexpected objects, like models, worlds, functions, numbers, events, sets, properties [Yablo]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / e. Vague objects

9389	Vague membership of sets is possible if the set is defined by its concept, not its members [Rumfitt]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / d. Metaphor

8861	Hardly a word in the language is devoid of metaphorical potential [Yablo]