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All the ideas for 'Identity and Existence in Logic', 'On the Genealogy of Ethics' and 'Ontology and the Vicious Circle Principle'

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13 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 2. Ancient Thought

7500	Early Greeks cared about city and companions; later Greeks concentrated on the self [Foucault]

4. Formal Logic / E. Nonclassical Logics / 6. Free Logic

18767

Free logics has terms that do not designate real things, and even empty domains [Anderson,CA]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 8. Critique of Set Theory

18151

Could we replace sets by the open sentences that define them? [Chihara, by Bostock]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 5. Second-Order Quantification

18763

Basic variables in second-order logic are taken to range over subsets of the individuals [Anderson,CA]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 7. Unorthodox Quantification

18771

Stop calling ∃ the 'existential' quantifier, read it as 'there is...', and range over all entities [Anderson,CA]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence

18769

Do mathematicians use 'existence' differently when they say some entity exists? [Anderson,CA]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment

18770

We can distinguish 'ontological' from 'existential' commitment, for different kinds of being [Anderson,CA]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 4. Impossible objects

18766

's is non-existent' cannot be said if 's' does not designate [Anderson,CA]

18768

We cannot pick out a thing and deny its existence, but we can say a concept doesn't correspond [Anderson,CA]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation

18765

Individuation was a problem for medievals, then Leibniz, then Frege, then Wittgenstein (somewhat) [Anderson,CA]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 7. Indiscernible Objects

18764

The notion of 'property' is unclear for a logical version of the Identity of Indiscernibles [Anderson,CA]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / h. Fine deeds

7501	Why couldn't a person's life become a work of art? [Foucault]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / b. Types of pleasure

7498	Greeks and early Christians were much more concerned about food than about sex [Foucault]