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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Actions' and 'Pragmatism and Objective Truth'

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6 ideas

3. Truth / E. Pragmatic Truth / 1. Pragmatic Truth

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Does the pragmatic theory of meaning support objective truth, or make it impossible? [Macbeth]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 5. Definitions of Number / b. Greek arithmetic

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Greek mathematics is wholly sensory, where ours is wholly inferential [Macbeth]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

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Seeing reality mathematically makes it an object of thought, not of experience [Macbeth]

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 1. Concepts / a. Nature of concepts

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For pragmatists a concept means its consequences [Macbeth]

20. Action / A. Definition of Action / 5. Action as Trying

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Bodily movements are not actions, which are really the tryings within bodily movement [Hornsby, by Stout,R]

23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 1. Ethical Egoism

3031	The greatest good is not the achievement of desire, but to desire what is proper [Menedemus, by Diog. Laertius]