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All the ideas for 'reports', 'Notice of Fine's 'Limits of Abstraction'' and 'works'

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 1. Aims of Science

6782	Realism is the only philosophy of science that doesn't make the success of science a miracle [Putnam]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism

22181

Putnam says anti-realism is a bad explanation of accurate predictions [Putnam, by Okasha]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity

3016	Even the gods cannot strive against necessity [Pittacus, by Diog. Laertius]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 7. Abstracta by Equivalence

9141	Abstraction theories build mathematics out of second-order equivalence principles [Cook/Ebert]