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5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 1. Logical Form

4730	For Aristotle, the subject-predicate structure of Greek reflected a substance-accident structure of reality [Aristotle, by O'Grady]
	Full Idea: Aristotle apparently believed that the subject-predicate structure of Greek reflected the substance-accident nature of reality.
	From: report of Aristotle (works [c.330 BCE]) by Paul O'Grady - Relativism Ch.4
	A reaction: We need not assume that Aristotle is wrong. It is a chicken-and-egg. There is something obvious about subject-predicate language, if one assumes that unified objects are part of nature, and not just conventional.

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 4. Substitutional Quantification

15533	We can quantify over fictions by quantifying for real over their names [Lewis]
	Full Idea: Substitutionalists simulate quantification over fictional characters by quantifying for real over fictional names.
	From: David Lewis (Noneism or Allism? [1990], p.159)
	A reaction: I would say that a fiction is a file of conceptual information, identified by a label. The label brings baggage with it, and there is no existence in the label.

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 7. Unorthodox Quantification

15534	We could quantify over impossible objects - as bundles of properties [Lewis]
	Full Idea: We can quantify over Meinongian objects by quantifying for real over property bundles (such as the bundle of roundness and squareness).
	From: David Lewis (Noneism or Allism? [1990], p.159)