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Ideas for 'Cratylus', 'Lysis' and 'Mathematical logic and theory of types'

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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]

5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 5. Paradoxes in Set Theory / d. Russell's paradox

6407	The class of classes which lack self-membership leads to a contradiction [Russell, by Grayling]