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Ideas for 'What is Logic?st1=Ian Hacking', 'Introduction to 'Language Truth and Logic'' and 'Replies on 'Limits of Abstraction''

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5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 4. Pure Logic

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The various logics are abstractions made from terms like 'if...then' in English [Hacking]

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

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First-order logic is the strongest complete compact theory with Löwenheim-Skolem [Hacking]

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A limitation of first-order logic is that it cannot handle branching quantifiers [Hacking]

5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 7. Second-Order Logic

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Second-order completeness seems to need intensional entities and possible worlds [Hacking]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / a. Logical connectives

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With a pure notion of truth and consequence, the meanings of connectives are fixed syntactically [Hacking]

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

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Perhaps variables could be dispensed with, by arrows joining places in the scope of quantifiers [Hacking]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 5. Second-Order Quantification

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If you ask what F the second-order quantifier quantifies over, you treat it as first-order [Fine,K]

5. Theory of Logic / I. Semantics of Logic / 1. Semantics of Logic

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Assigning an entity to each predicate in semantics is largely a technical convenience [Fine,K]

5. Theory of Logic / J. Model Theory in Logic / 3. Löwenheim-Skolem Theorems

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If it is a logic, the Löwenheim-Skolem theorem holds for it [Hacking]