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All the ideas for 'poems', 'Letters to Russell' and 'Natural Theology'

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9 ideas

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / g. Real numbers

18253

I wish to go straight from cardinals to reals (as ratios), leaving out the rationals [Frege]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / a. Early logicism

18166

The loss of my Rule V seems to make foundations for arithmetic impossible [Frege]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / c. Modern abstracta

18269

Logical objects are extensions of concepts, or ranges of values of functions [Frege]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

6017	Nomos is king [Pindar]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / b. Teleological Proof

21275

Unlike a stone, the parts of a watch are obviously assembled in order to show the time [Paley]

21276

From the obvious purpose and structure of a watch we must infer that it was designed [Paley]

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Even an imperfect machine can exhibit obvious design [Paley]

21278

All the signs of design found in a watch are also found in nature [Paley]

21357

No organ shows purpose more obviously than the eyelid [Paley]