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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Realism in Mathematics' and 'Philosophy and Scientific Image of Man'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / c. Philosophy as generalisation

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Philosophy aims to understand how things (broadly understood) hang together (broadly understood) [Sellars]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 7. Natural Sets

8755	Maddy replaces pure sets with just objects and perceived sets of objects [Maddy, by Shapiro]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 6. Mathematics as Set Theory / a. Mathematics is set theory

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A natural number is a property of sets [Maddy, by Oliver]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 2. Intuition of Mathematics

8756	Intuition doesn't support much mathematics, and we should question its reliability [Maddy, by Shapiro]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / a. Mathematical empiricism

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We know mind-independent mathematical truths through sets, which rest on experience [Maddy, by Jenkins]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction

6550	Reduction requires that an object's properties consist of its constituents' properties and relations [Sellars]

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / b. Education principles

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Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / d. Time as measure

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Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus]