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All the ideas for 'Unconscious Cerebral Initiative', 'The Union of Body and Soul' and 'The philosophical basis of intuitionist logic'

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4. Formal Logic / E. Nonclassical Logics / 2. Intuitionist Logic

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Dummett says classical logic rests on meaning as truth, while intuitionist logic rests on assertability [Dummett, by Kitcher]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 1. Quantification

19057

Classical quantification is an infinite conjunction or disjunction - but you may not know all the instances [Dummett]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions

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Stating a sentence's truth-conditions is just paraphrasing the sentence [Dummett]

19056

If a sentence is effectively undecidable, we can never know its truth conditions [Dummett]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use

19054

Meaning as use puts use beyond criticism, and needs a holistic view of language [Dummett]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act

7861	Libet says the processes initiated in the cortex can still be consciously changed [Libet, by Papineau]

6660	Libet found conscious choice 0.2 secs before movement, well after unconscious 'readiness potential' [Libet, by Lowe]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

2594	A true cause must involve a necessary connection between cause and effect [Malebranche]