Ideas from 'Reference and Generality (3rd ed)' by Peter Geach [1980], by Theme Structure

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / d. Counting via concepts

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Are 'word token' and 'word type' different sorts of countable objects, or two ways of counting? [Perry]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 6. Nihilism about Objects

8969	We should abandon absolute identity, confining it to within some category [Hawthorne]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity

16075

Denial of absolute identity has drastic implications for logic, semantics and set theory [Wasserman]

12152

Identity is relative. One must not say things are 'the same', but 'the same A as'

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 8. Leibniz's Law

16073

Leibniz's Law is incomplete, since it includes a non-relativized identity predicate [Wasserman]