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Ideas for 'Function and Concept', 'Cratylus' and 'The Philosophy of Nature: new essentialism'

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5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 5. Functions in Logic

8490	First-level functions have objects as arguments; second-level functions take functions as arguments [Frege]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 6. Relations in Logic

8492	Relations are functions with two arguments [Frege]

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

13777

A name is a sort of tool [Plato]

13790

A name-giver might misname something, then force other names to conform to it [Plato]

13791

Things must be known before they are named, so it can't be the names that give us knowledge [Plato]

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / c. Names as referential

13789

Anyone who knows a thing's name also knows the thing [Plato]