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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Mathematics, Science and Language' and 'Making It Explicit'

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6 ideas

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 2. Correspondence to Facts

10355

Facts can't make claims true, because they are true claims [Brandom, by Kusch]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 1. Mathematics

18119

Mathematics is a mental activity which does not use language [Brouwer, by Bostock]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / g. Applying mathematics

18118

Brouwer regards the application of mathematics to the world as somehow 'wicked' [Brouwer, by Bostock]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being

18933

Not-Being obviously doesn't exist, and the five modes of Being are all impossible [Gorgias, by Diog. Laertius]

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

5864	Destroy seriousness with laughter, and laughter with seriousness [Gorgias]

9866	Gorgias says rhetoric is the best of arts, because it enslaves without using force [Gorgias, by Plato]