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Ideas for 'Reference and Modality', 'A Powerful Particulars View of Causation' and 'Of the First Principles of Government'

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

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Failure of substitutivity shows that a personal name is not purely referential [Quine]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 1. Quantification

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Quantifying into referentially opaque contexts often produces nonsense [Quine]