Full Idea
First-order predicate logic was accepted so easily by the philosophical community …because philosophy was already geared toward a neo-Humean view of both science and philosophy as primarily descriptive rather than explanatory.
Gist of Idea
Philosophers accepted first-order logic, because they took science to be descriptive, not explanatory
Source
R.D. Ingthorsson (A Powerful Particulars View of Causation [2021], 1.8)
Book Reference
'Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time', ed/tr. Callender,Craig [OUP 2013], p.15
A Reaction
The point, I think, is that explanatory thinking needs second-order logic, where the properties (or powers) are players in the game, and not just adjuncts of the catalogue of objects. I find this idea mind-expanding. (That's a good thing).
Related Idea
Idea 22610 It is difficult to handle presentism in first-order logic [Ingthorsson]