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Ideas for 'Thinking About Mathematics', 'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra' and 'Psychosemantics'

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5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 2. Excluded Middle

8729	Intuitionists deny excluded middle, because it is committed to transcendent truth or objects [Shapiro]
	Full Idea: Intuitionists in mathematics deny excluded middle, because it is symptomatic of faith in the transcendent existence of mathematical objects and/or the truth of mathematical statements.
	From: Stewart Shapiro (Thinking About Mathematics [2000], 1.2)
	A reaction: There are other problems with excluded middle, such as vagueness, but on the whole I, as a card-carrying 'realist', am committed to the law of excluded middle.

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / a. Names

3005	'Jocasta' needs to be distinguished from 'Oedipus's mother' because they are connected by different properties [Fodor]
	Full Idea: If the concept 'Jocasta' needs to be distinguished from the concept 'Oedipus's mother', that's all right because the two concepts are connected with different properties.
	From: Jerry A. Fodor (Psychosemantics [1987], p. 84)