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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 / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / a. Logical connectives
15019 Define logical constants by role in proofs, or as fixed in meaning, or as topic-neutral [Sider]
     Full Idea: Some say that logical constants are those expressions that are defined by their proof-theoretic roles, others that they are the expressions whose semantic values are permutation-invariant, and still others that they are the topic-neutral expressions.
     From: Theodore Sider (Writing the Book of the World [2011], 10.3)
     A reaction: [He cites MacFarlane 2005 as giving a survey of this]