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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Letters to Russell' and 'The Impossibility of Superdupervenience'

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8 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]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 3. Levels of Reality

16062

A necessary relation between fact-levels seems to be a further irreducible fact [Lynch/Glasgow]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience

16061

If some facts 'logically supervene' on some others, they just redescribe them, adding nothing [Lynch/Glasgow]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism

16060

Nonreductive materialism says upper 'levels' depend on lower, but don't 'reduce' [Lynch/Glasgow]

16064

The hallmark of physicalism is that each causal power has a base causal power under it [Lynch/Glasgow]

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]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 3. Deism

1558	Clearly the gods ignore human affairs, or they would have given us justice [Thrasymachus]