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Ideas for Melvin Fitting, Roger Scruton and Keith Devlin
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5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 1. Overview of Logic
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Situation theory is logic that takes account of context [Devlin]
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5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 2. History of Logic
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Nowadays logic is seen as the science of extensions, not intensions [Scruton]
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Golden ages: 1900-1960 for pure logic, and 1950-1985 for applied logic [Devlin]
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Montague's intensional logic incorporated the notion of meaning [Devlin]
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5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 8. Logic of Mathematics
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Classical logic is deliberately extensional, in order to model mathematics [Fitting]
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5. Theory of Logic / B. Logical Consequence / 7. Strict Implication
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Where a conditional is purely formal, an implication implies a link between premise and conclusion [Devlin]
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5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 1. Logical Form
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Sentences of apparent identical form can have different contextual meanings [Devlin]
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5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 3. Property (λ-) Abstraction
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λ-abstraction disambiguates the scope of modal operators [Fitting]
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5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 4. Paradoxes in Logic / a. Achilles paradox
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Space and time are atomic in the arrow, and divisible in the tortoise [Devlin]
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