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All the ideas for 'Laches', 'On the Nature of Mathematical Reasoning' and 'The Blue and Brown Notebooks'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 3. Wisdom Deflated

291	Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / d. Actual infinite

15923

Poincaré rejected the actual infinite, claiming definitions gave apparent infinity to finite objects [Poincaré, by Lavine]

16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 3. Reference of 'I'

22419

'I' is a subject in 'I am in pain' and an object in 'I am bleeding' [Wittgenstein, by McGinn]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / b. Indeterminate translation

6318	The doctrine of indeterminacy of translation seems implied by the later Wittgenstein [Wittgenstein, by Quine]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / d. Courage

293	Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato]