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Ideas for Donald Davidson, John Hick and Rudolph Carnap

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5. Theory of Logic / B. Logical Consequence / 1. Logical Consequence

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Carnap defined consequence by contradiction, but this is unintuitive and changes with substitution [Tarski on Carnap]

5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 4. Logic by Convention

13251

Each person is free to build their own logic, just by specifying a syntax [Carnap]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 1. Logical Form

7332	There is a huge range of sentences of which we do not know the logical form [Davidson]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 2. Domain of Quantification

18914

Davidson controversially proposed to quantify over events [Davidson, by Engelbretsen]

5. Theory of Logic / I. Semantics of Logic / 4. Satisfaction

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'Satisfaction' is a generalised form of reference [Davidson]