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All the ideas for 'The Runabout Inference Ticket', 'De Essentia' and 'Universal Arithmetick'

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6 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / a. Logical connectives

17896

We need to know the meaning of 'and', prior to its role in reasoning [Prior,AN, by Belnap]

17898

Prior's 'tonk' is inconsistent, since it allows the non-conservative inference A |- B [Belnap on Prior,AN]

11021

Prior rejected accounts of logical connectives by inference pattern, with 'tonk' his absurd example [Prior,AN, by Read]

13836

Maybe introducing or defining logical connectives by rules of inference leads to absurdity [Prior,AN, by Hacking]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 5. Definitions of Number / b. Greek arithmetic

17783

A number is not a multitude, but a unified ratio between quantities [Newton]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / d. Individuation by haecceity

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A snowball's haecceity is the property of being identical with itself [Plantinga, by Westerhoff]