Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Donald Davidson, Peter F. Strawson and Godfrey Vesey

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

8358	There are no rules for the exact logic of ordinary language, because that doesn't exist [Strawson,P]

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

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

6413	'The present King of France is bald' presupposes existence, rather than stating it [Strawson,P, by Grayling]

8354	Russell asks when 'The King of France is wise' would be a true assertion [Strawson,P]

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

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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]