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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Apology' and 'Mathematics without Foundations'

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4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 3. Types of Set / d. Infinite Sets

9944	We understand some statements about all sets [Putnam]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 1. Foundations for Mathematics

9937	I do not believe mathematics either has or needs 'foundations' [Putnam]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 4. Axioms for Number / a. Axioms for numbers

9939	It is conceivable that the axioms of arithmetic or propositional logic might be changed [Putnam]

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

9940	Maybe mathematics is empirical in that we could try to change it [Putnam]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / b. Indispensability of mathematics

9941	Science requires more than consistency of mathematics [Putnam]

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

9943	You can't deny a hypothesis a truth-value simply because we may never know it! [Putnam]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / b. Intellectualism

1655	If goodness needs true opinion but not knowledge, you can skip the 'examined life' [Vlastos on Plato]

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

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