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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Whitehead and the Rise of Modern Logic' and 'The Language of Morals'

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6 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]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience

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The goodness of a picture supervenes on the picture; duplicates must be equally good [Hare]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / i. Prescriptivism

2855	In primary evaluative words like 'ought' prescription is constant but description can vary [Hare, by Hooker,B]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]