Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Intuitionism: an Introduction' and 'Finkish dispositions'

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6 ideas

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / d. Logicism critique

8754	Logic is dependent on mathematics, not the other way round [Heyting, by Shapiro]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 6. Categorical Properties

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The distinction between dispositional and 'categorical' properties leads to confusion [Lewis]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived

15463

All dispositions must have causal bases [Lewis]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / c. Dispositions as conditional

15461

A 'finkish' disposition is real, but disappears when the stimulus occurs [Lewis]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 9. Counterfactuals

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Backtracking counterfactuals go from supposed events to their required causal antecedents [Lewis]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention

1556	By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]