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All the ideas for 'Plural Quantification Exposed', 'Events as property exemplifications' and 'Philosophical Fragments'

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13 ideas

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / n. Axiom of Comprehension

10779

A comprehension axiom is 'predicative' if the formula has no bound second-order variables [Linnebo]

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

10781

A 'pure logic' must be ontologically innocent, universal, and without presuppositions [Linnebo]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 6. Plural Quantification

10783

Plural quantification depends too heavily on combinatorial and set-theoretic considerations [Linnebo]

10778

Can second-order logic be ontologically first-order, with all the benefits of second-order? [Linnebo]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence

16007

I assume existence, rather than reasoning towards it [Kierkegaard]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events

10369

How fine-grained Kim's events are depends on how finely properties are individuated [Kim, by Schaffer,J]

8976	If events are ordered triples of items, such things seem to be sets, and hence abstract [Simons on Kim]

8975	Events cannot be merely ordered triples, but must specify the link between the elements [Kim, by Simons]

8974	Events are composed of an object with an attribute at a time [Kim, by Simons]

8977	Since properties like self-identity and being 2+2=4 are timeless, Kim must restrict his properties [Simons on Kim]

8980	Kim's theory results in too many events [Simons on Kim]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 1. Physical Objects

10782

The modern concept of an object is rooted in quantificational logic [Linnebo]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 2. Nature of Necessity

16013

Nothing necessary can come into existence, since it already 'is' [Kierkegaard]