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Ideas for Hermarchus, David Kaplan and Jonathan Glover

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5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 1. Ontology of Logic

11970	Logicians like their entities to exhibit a maximum degree of purity [Kaplan]
	Full Idea: Logicians like their entities to exhibit a maximum degree of purity.
	From: David Kaplan (Transworld Heir Lines [1967], p.97)
	A reaction: An important observation, which explains why the modern obsession with logic has often led us down the metaphysical primrose path to ontological hell.

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 2. Descriptions / c. Theory of definite descriptions

11989	For Russell, expressions dependent on contingent circumstances must be eliminated [Kaplan]
	Full Idea: It is a tenet of Russell's theory that all expressions, and especially definite descriptions, whose denotation is dependent upon contingent circumstances must be eliminated.
	From: David Kaplan (How to Russell a Frege-Church [1975], II)