Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Xenophon, Stephen P. Schwartz and Melvin Fitting

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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]

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / b. Names as descriptive

5829	We refer to Thales successfully by name, even if all descriptions of him are false [Schwartz,SP]

5830	The traditional theory of names says some of the descriptions must be correct [Schwartz,SP]

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]