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5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 1. Overview of Logic
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Logic fills the world, to its limits [Wittgenstein]
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Logic concerns everything that is subject to law; the rest is accident [Wittgenstein]
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If a sound conclusion comes from two errors that cancel out, the path of the argument must matter [Rumfitt]
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5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 3. Value of Logic
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Wittgenstein is right that logic is just tautologies [Wittgenstein, by Russell]
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5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 4. Pure Logic
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Logic is a priori because it is impossible to think illogically [Wittgenstein]
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5. Theory of Logic / B. Logical Consequence / 3. Deductive Consequence |-
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If q implies p, that is justified by q and p, not by some 'laws' of inference [Wittgenstein]
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5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 1. Ontology of Logic
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The propositions of logic are analytic tautologies [Wittgenstein]
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5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 2. Platonism in Logic
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Wittgenstein convinced Russell that logic is tautologies, not Platonic forms [Wittgenstein, by Monk]
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5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 3. Contradiction
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Two colours in the same place is ruled out by the logical structure of colour [Wittgenstein]
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5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 4. Identity in Logic
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The sign of identity is not allowed in 'Tractatus' [Wittgenstein, by Bostock]
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The identity sign is not essential in logical notation, if every sign has a different meaning [Wittgenstein, by Ramsey]
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5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 1. Logical Form
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Apparent logical form may not be real logical form [Wittgenstein]
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5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / a. Logical connectives
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Standardly 'and' and 'but' are held to have the same sense by having the same truth table [Rumfitt]
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My fundamental idea is that the 'logical constants' do not represent [Wittgenstein]
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The sense of a connective comes from primitively obvious rules of inference [Rumfitt]
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5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / c. not
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'Not' isn't an object, because not-not-p would then differ from p [Wittgenstein]
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5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 4. Variables in Logic
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'Object' is a pseudo-concept, properly indicated in logic by the variable x [Wittgenstein]
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5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / a. Names
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Names are primitive, and cannot be analysed [Wittgenstein]
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5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / c. Names as referential
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A name is primitive, and its meaning is the object [Wittgenstein]
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5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 1. Quantification
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Wittgenstein tried unsuccessfully to reduce quantifiers to conjunctions and disjunctions [Wittgenstein, by Jacquette]
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5. Theory of Logic / H. Proof Systems / 1. Proof Systems
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Logical proof just explicates complicated tautologies [Wittgenstein]
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5. Theory of Logic / I. Semantics of Logic / 3. Logical Truth
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Logical truths are just 'by-products' of the introduction rules for logical constants [Wittgenstein, by Hacking]
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5. Theory of Logic / K. Features of Logics / 1. Axiomatisation
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Logic doesn't split into primitive and derived propositions; they all have the same status [Wittgenstein]
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5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 6. Paradoxes in Language / b. The Heap paradox ('Sorites')
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The smallest heap has four objects: three on the bottom, one on the top [Hart,WD, by Sorensen]
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