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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 / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / b. Names as descriptive

16216	Part of the sense of a proper name is a criterion of the thing's identity [Hawley]
	Full Idea: A Fregean dictum is that part of the sense of proper name is a criterion of identity for the thing in question.
	From: Katherine Hawley (How Things Persist [2001], 3.8)
	A reaction: [She quotes Dummett 1981:545] We are asked to choose between this and the Kripke rigid/dubbing/causal account, with effectively no content.