Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Scientific Revolution 1500-1800', 'Whitehead and the Rise of Modern Logic' and 'Ways Worlds Could Be'

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4 ideas

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

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Quine says higher-order items are intensional, and lack a clearly defined identity relation [Quine, by Shapiro]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / b. Type theory

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Russell confused use and mention, and reduced classes to properties, not to language [Quine, by Lackey]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / a. Nature of possible worlds

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Structural universals might serve as possible worlds [Forrest, by Lewis]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature

5470	The idea of laws of nature arose in the Middle Ages [Hall,AR, by Ellis]