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Ideas for 'works', 'Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis' and 'Frege philosophy of mathematics'

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18. Thought / D. Concepts / 4. Structure of Concepts / i. Conceptual priority

9849	Maybe a concept is 'prior' to another if it can be defined without the second concept [Dummett]

9850	An argument for conceptual priority is greater simplicity in explanation [Dummett]

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 5. Concepts and Language / b. Concepts are linguistic

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Concepts are language [Quine]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 1. Abstract Thought

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Apply '-ness' or 'class of' to abstract general terms, to get second-level abstract singular terms [Quine]

9873	Abstract terms are acceptable as long as we know how they function linguistically [Dummett]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 7. Abstracta by Equivalence

9993	There is no reason why abstraction by equivalence classes should be called 'logical' [Dummett, by Tait]

9857	We arrive at the concept 'suicide' by comparing 'Cato killed Cato' with 'Brutus killed Brutus' [Dummett]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 8. Abstractionism Critique

9833	To abstract from spoons (to get the same number as the forks), the spoons must be indistinguishable too [Dummett]