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Ideas for 'works', 'Bertrand Russell: Spirit of Solitude' and 'Mental Files'

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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 / d. Singular terms

16357	Mental files are the counterparts of singular terms [Recanati]
	Full Idea: Mental files are the mental counterparts of singular terms.
	From: François Recanati (Mental Files [2012], 3.3)
	A reaction: A thoroughly satisfactory theory. We can build up a picture of filing merging, duplication, ambiguity, error etc. Eventually neuroscience will map the whole system, and we will have cracked it.