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All the ideas for 'The Runabout Inference Ticket', 'De Essentia' and 'The Law of Peoples'

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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]
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / d. Individuation by haecceity
13132 A snowball's haecceity is the property of being identical with itself [Plantinga, by Westerhoff]
24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / c. A unified people
21137 Rawls rejected cosmopolitanism because it doesn't respect the autonomy of 'peoples' [Rawls, by Shorten]