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Ideas for 'Material Beings', 'System of Logic' and 'An Outline of Philosophy'

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

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The 'Law' of Excluded Middle needs all propositions to be definitely true or definitely false [Inwagen]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / d. and

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Combining two distinct assertions does not necessarily lead to a single 'complex proposition' [Mill]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 4. Variables in Logic

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Variables are just like pronouns; syntactic explanations get muddled over dummy letters [Inwagen]

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

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All names are names of something, real or imaginary [Mill]

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

4944	Mill says names have denotation but not connotation [Mill, by Kripke]

7762	Proper names are just labels for persons or objects, and the meaning is the object [Mill, by Lycan]

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

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There are no heaps [Inwagen]