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Ideas for 'Intro to Naming,Necessity and Natural Kinds', 'Intellectual Autobiography' and 'Sweet Dreams'

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5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 4. Identity in Logic

18897

Predicate logic has to spell out that its identity relation '=' is an equivalent relation [Sommers]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 1. Logical Form

18893

Translating into quantificational idiom offers no clues as to how ordinary thinkers reason [Sommers]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / c. not

18903

Sommers promotes the old idea that negation basically refers to terms [Sommers, by Engelbretsen]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 7. Predicates in Logic

18894

Predicates form a hierarchy, from the most general, down to names at the bottom [Sommers]

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

5829	We refer to Thales successfully by name, even if all descriptions of him are false [Schwartz,SP]

5830	The traditional theory of names says some of the descriptions must be correct [Schwartz,SP]