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Full Idea
My use of variables is not merely pedantic; it indicates that the various items on our list pertain to one and the same entity throughout.
Gist of Idea
I use variables to show that each item remains the same entity throughout
Source
Roderick Chisholm (Person and Object [1976], Intro 2)
Book Ref
Chisholm,Roderick: 'Person and Object' [Open Court 1976], p.17
A Reaction
I am one of those poor souls who finds modern analytic philosophy challenging simply because I think in terms of old fashioned words, instead of thinking like mathematicians and logicians. This is a nice defence of their approach.
| 19231 | Metaphysics is turning into logic, and logic is becoming mathematics [Peirce] |
| 22270 | Frege changed philosophy by extending logic's ability to check the grounds of thinking [Potter on Frege] |
| 15948 | Frege developed formal systems to avoid unnoticed assumptions [Frege, by Lavine] |
| 21573 | When problems are analysed properly, they are either logical, or not philosophical at all [Russell] |
| 6116 | A logical language would show up the fallacy of inferring reality from ordinary language [Russell] |
| 21546 | We can't sharply distinguish variables, domains and values, if symbols frighten us [Russell] |
| 22436 | Logicians don't paraphrase logic into language, because they think in the symbolic language [Quine] |
| 8996 | If if time is money then if time is not money then time is money then if if if time is not money... [Quine] |
| 15802 | I use variables to show that each item remains the same entity throughout [Chisholm] |
| 15210 | Humeans see analysis in terms of formal logic, because necessities are fundamentally logical relations [Harré/Madden] |
| 13515 | To study abstract problems, some knowledge of set theory is essential [Hart,WD] |
| 9766 | Study vagueness first by its logic, then by its truth-conditions, and then its metaphysics [Fine,K] |
| 11051 | Frege's logical approach dominates the analytical tradition [Hanna] |