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All the ideas for 'Critical Common-Sensism', 'Intellectual Autobiography' and 'works'

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12 ideas

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / a. What makes truths

18901

Truthmakers are facts 'of' a domain, not something 'in' the domain [Sommers]

4. Formal Logic / A. Syllogistic Logic / 3. Term Logic

18904

'Predicable' terms come in charged pairs, with one the negation of the other [Sommers, by Engelbretsen]

18895

Logic which maps ordinary reasoning must be transparent, and free of variables [Sommers]

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 4. Identity in Logic

18897

Predicate logic has to spell out that its identity relation '=' is an equivalent relation [Sommers]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 1. Logical Form

18893

Translating into quantificational idiom offers no clues as to how ordinary thinkers reason [Sommers]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / c. not

18903

Sommers promotes the old idea that negation basically refers to terms [Sommers, by Engelbretsen]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 7. Predicates in Logic

18894

Predicates form a hierarchy, from the most general, down to names at the bottom [Sommers]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism

18900

Unfortunately for realists, modern logic cannot say that some fact exists [Sommers]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / e. Vague objects

14797

Vagueness is a neglected but important part of mathematical thought [Peirce]

14798

All communication is vague, and is outside the principle of non-contradiction [Peirce]

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 6. Artificial Thought / b. Turing Machines

3193	Turing showed that logical rules can be specified computationally and mechanically [Turing, by Rey]

19. Language / B. Reference / 1. Reference theories

18898

In standard logic, names are the only way to refer [Sommers]