Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works', 'Conditionals and Possibilia' and 'The Language of Thought'

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4 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 2. Domain of Quantification

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De Morgan introduced a 'universe of discourse', to replace Boole's universe of 'all things' [De Morgan, by Walicki]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / c. Truth-function conditionals

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The truth-functional account of conditionals is right, if the antecedent is really acceptable [Jackson, by Edgington]

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 4. Language of Thought

8090	Since the language of thought is the same for all, it must be something like logical form [Fodor, by Devlin]

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / c. Nativist concepts

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If concept-learning is hypothesis-testing, that needs innate concepts to get started [Fodor, by Margolis/Laurence]