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All the ideas for 'works', 'Whitehead and the Rise of Modern Logic' and 'Quantum: Einstein and Bohr'

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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 / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 3. Axioms for Geometry

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Archimedes defined a straight line as the shortest distance between two points [Archimedes, by Leibniz]

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]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / k. Explanations by essence

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Bohr explained the periodic table and chemical properties of elements, using the quantum atom [Kumar]