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Ideas for Melvin Fitting, Roger Scruton and Georg W.F.Hegel

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5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 2. History of Logic
5637 Nowadays logic is seen as the science of extensions, not intensions [Scruton]
5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 8. Logic of Mathematics
11026 Classical logic is deliberately extensional, in order to model mathematics [Fitting]
5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 2. Excluded Middle
21595 Excluded middle is the maxim of definite understanding, but just produces contradictions [Hegel]
5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / c. not
21777 Negation of negation doubles back into a self-relationship [Hegel, by Houlgate]
5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 3. Property (λ-) Abstraction
11028 λ-abstraction disambiguates the scope of modal operators [Fitting]
5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 3. Antinomies
15628 The idea that contradiction is essential to rational understanding is a key modern idea [Hegel]
15629 Tenderness for the world solves the antinomies; contradiction is in our reason, not in the essence of the world [Hegel]
15630 Antinomies are not just in four objects, but in all objects, all representations, all objects and all ideas [Hegel]