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Ideas for B Hale / C Wright, Hermann von Helmholtz and George Santayana

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5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / d. Singular terms

12230	Singular terms refer if they make certain atomic statements true [Hale/Wright]
	Full Idea: Anyone should agree that a justification for regarding a singular term as having objectual reference is provided just as soon as one has justification for regarding as true certain atomic statements in which it functions as a singular term.
	From: B Hale / C Wright (The Metaontology of Abstraction [2009], §9)
	A reaction: The meat of this idea is hidden in the word 'certain'. See Idea 10314 for Hale's explanation. Without that, the proposal strikes me as absurd.

5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 6. Paradoxes in Language / c. Grelling's paradox

10631	If 'x is heterological' iff it does not apply to itself, then 'heterological' is heterological if it isn't heterological [Hale/Wright]
	Full Idea: If we stipulate that 'x is heterological' iff it does not apply to itself, we speedily arrive at the contradiction that 'heterological' is itself heterological just in case it is not.
	From: B Hale / C Wright (Intro to 'The Reason's Proper Study' [2001], 3.2)