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Ideas for 'Material Beings', 'A Powerful Particulars View of Causation' and 'The Philosopher's Toolkit'

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5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 5. First-Order Logic

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Philosophers accepted first-order logic, because they took science to be descriptive, not explanatory [Ingthorsson]

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

4638	The principle of bivalence distorts reality, as when claiming that a person is or is not 'thin' [Baggini /Fosl]

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

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There are no heaps [Inwagen]