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Ideas for 'Truth and the Past', 'Nihilism without Self-Contradiction' and 'Proper Names'

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5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 1. Bivalence

8195	Undecidable statements result from quantifying over infinites, subjunctive conditionals, and the past tense [Dummett]

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

7746	We don't normally think of names as having senses (e.g. we don't give definitions of them) [Searle]

7747	How can a proper name be correlated with its object if it hasn't got a sense? [Searle]

7748	'Aristotle' means more than just 'an object that was christened "Aristotle"' [Searle]

7749	Reference for proper names presupposes a set of uniquely referring descriptions [Searle]

7750	Proper names are logically connected with their characteristics, in a loose way [Searle]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 6. Plural Quantification

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We normally formalise 'There are Fs' with singular quantification and predication, but this may be wrong [Liggins]

5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 6. Paradoxes in Language / b. The Heap paradox ('Sorites')

8194	Surely there is no exact single grain that brings a heap into existence [Dummett]