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Ideas for 'The Case for Closure', 'Aboutness' and 'Concepts:where cogn.science went wrong'

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4. Formal Logic / A. Syllogistic Logic / 2. Syllogistic Logic

19006	An 'enthymeme' is an argument with an indispensable unstated assumption [Yablo]
	Full Idea: An 'enthymeme' is a deductive argument with an unstated assumption that must be true for the premises to lead to the conclusion.
	From: Stephen Yablo (Aboutness [2014], 11.1)

4. Formal Logic / G. Formal Mereology / 3. Axioms of Mereology

18999	y is only a proper part of x if there is a z which 'makes up the difference' between them [Yablo]
	Full Idea: The principle of Supplementation says that y is properly part of x, only if a z exists that 'makes up the difference' between them. [note: that is, z is disjoint from y and sums with y to form x]
	From: Stephen Yablo (Aboutness [2014], 03.2)