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All the ideas for 'The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge', 'Brandom on Social Practices and Representations' and 'First-order Logic, 2nd-order, Completeness'

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13 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy

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If we can't check our language against experience, philosophy is just comparing beliefs and words [Rorty]

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

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Second-order logic needs the sets, and its consequence has epistemological problems [Rossberg]

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Henkin semantics has a second domain of predicates and relations (in upper case) [Rossberg]

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There are at least seven possible systems of semantics for second-order logic [Rossberg]

5. Theory of Logic / B. Logical Consequence / 2. Types of Consequence

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Logical consequence is intuitively semantic, and captured by model theory [Rossberg]

5. Theory of Logic / B. Logical Consequence / 3. Deductive Consequence |-

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Γ |- S says S can be deduced from Γ; Γ |= S says a good model for Γ makes S true [Rossberg]

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

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In proof-theory, logical form is shown by the logical constants [Rossberg]

5. Theory of Logic / J. Model Theory in Logic / 1. Logical Models

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A model is a domain, and an interpretation assigning objects, predicates, relations etc. [Rossberg]

5. Theory of Logic / J. Model Theory in Logic / 2. Isomorphisms

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If models of a mathematical theory are all isomorphic, it is 'categorical', with essentially one model [Rossberg]

5. Theory of Logic / K. Features of Logics / 4. Completeness

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Completeness can always be achieved by cunning model-design [Rossberg]

5. Theory of Logic / K. Features of Logics / 5. Incompleteness

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A deductive system is only incomplete with respect to a formal semantics [Rossberg]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism

8824	No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

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The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer]