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All the ideas for '26: Oracles in Decline', 'Sentences' and 'Cantorian Abstraction: Recon. and Defence'

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5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 3. Value of Logic
16728 Logicians acknowledge too few things, while others acknowledge too many [Fitzralph]
5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 4. Variables in Logic
9148 I think of variables as objects rather than as signs [Fine,K]
11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / a. Idealism
5958 The sun is always bright; it doesn't become bright when it emerges [Plutarch]
15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 5. Generalisation by mind
9152 If green is abstracted from a thing, it is only seen as a type if it is common to many things [Fine,K]
18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 2. Abstracta by Selection
9149 To obtain the number 2 by abstraction, we only want to abstract the distinctness of a pair of objects [Fine,K]
9150 We should define abstraction in general, with number abstraction taken as a special case [Fine,K]
18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 8. Abstractionism Critique
9146 After abstraction all numbers seem identical, so only 0 and 1 will exist! [Fine,K]