Ideas from 'Carving Content at the Joints' by Stephen Yablo [2002], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Things: Philosophical Papers vol. 2' by Yablo,Stephen [OUP 2010,978-0-19-926649-0]].

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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 7. Abstracta by Equivalence
A sentence should be recarved to reveal its content or implication relations
                        Full Idea: A sentence invites recarving iff it will then do better justice to the internal structure of its content and/or its implication relations.
                        From: Stephen Yablo (Carving Content at the Joints [2002], §11)
                        A reaction: This invites human intervention in a logical process (by choosing which recarvings to do, instead of allowing all equivalences to generate them). He seems to think we should abstract in order to reveal logical form.