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Ideas for 'Confessions of a Philosopher', 'Meditations' and 'Intellectual Autobiography'

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5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 3. If-Thenism

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Arithmetic and geometry achieve some certainty without worrying about existence [Descartes]

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 4. Identity in Logic

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Predicate logic has to spell out that its identity relation '=' is an equivalent relation [Sommers]

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

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Translating into quantificational idiom offers no clues as to how ordinary thinkers reason [Sommers]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / c. not

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Sommers promotes the old idea that negation basically refers to terms [Sommers, by Engelbretsen]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 7. Predicates in Logic

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Predicates form a hierarchy, from the most general, down to names at the bottom [Sommers]