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Ideas for 'Material Beings', 'Causation and Supervenience' and 'works'

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4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 1. Set Theory
3302 Set theory is full of Platonist metaphysics, so Quine aimed to keep it separate from logic [Quine, by Benardete,JA]
4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / o. Axiom of Constructibility V = L
10211 Quine wants V = L for a cleaner theory, despite the scepticism of most theorists [Quine, by Shapiro]
4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 8. Critique of Set Theory
3336 Two things can never entail three things [Quine, by Benardete,JA]
4. Formal Logic / G. Formal Mereology / 1. Mereology
10662 Mereology is 'nihilistic' (just atoms) or 'universal' (no restrictions on what is 'whole') [Inwagen, by Varzi]