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8859 | The main modal logics disagree over three key formulae |
8865 | If 'the number of Democrats is on the rise', does that mean that 50 million is on the rise? |
8863 | We must treat numbers as existing in order to express ourselves about the arrangement of planets |
8862 | Platonic objects are really created as existential metaphors |
8864 | We quantify over events, worlds, etc. in order to make logical possibilities clearer |
8858 | Philosophers keep finding unexpected objects, like models, worlds, functions, numbers, events, sets, properties |
8861 | Hardly a word in the language is devoid of metaphorical potential |