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All the ideas for 'Changes in Events and Changes in Things', 'Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics' and 'Vagueness'

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7 ideas

3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 1. Redundant Truth
11074 'It is true that this follows' means simply: this follows [Wittgenstein]
5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / a. Logical connectives
21597 Logical connectives have the highest precision, yet are infected by the vagueness of true and false [Russell, by Williamson]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / a. Early logicism
11073 Two and one making three has the necessity of logical inference [Wittgenstein]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / b. Types of fact
15201 That Queen Anne is dead is a 'general fact', not a fact about Queen Anne [Prior,AN]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / d. Vagueness as linguistic
9051 Since natural language is not precise it cannot be in the province of logic [Russell, by Keefe/Smith]
9054 Vagueness is only a characteristic of representations, such as language [Russell]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / e. Tensed (A) series
22899 'Thank goodness that's over' is not like 'thank goodness that happened on Friday' [Prior,AN]