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All the ideas for 'Concerning the Author', 'The Sense of Reality' and 'Plural Quantification Exposed'

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 1. History of Ideas

7460	The great moments are the death of Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Romanticism [Berlin, by Watson]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics

14767

The demonstrations of the metaphysicians are all moonshine [Peirce]

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism

14764

I am saturated with the spirit of physical science [Peirce]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / n. Axiom of Comprehension

10779

A comprehension axiom is 'predicative' if the formula has no bound second-order variables [Linnebo]

5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 4. Pure Logic

10781

A 'pure logic' must be ontologically innocent, universal, and without presuppositions [Linnebo]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 6. Plural Quantification

10783

Plural quantification depends too heavily on combinatorial and set-theoretic considerations [Linnebo]

10778

Can second-order logic be ontologically first-order, with all the benefits of second-order? [Linnebo]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 1. Physical Objects

10782

The modern concept of an object is rooted in quantificational logic [Linnebo]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 3. Fallibilism

14768

Infallibility in science is just a joke [Peirce]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 2. Associationism

14765

Association of ideas is the best philosophical idea of the prescientific age [Peirce]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

14766

Duns Scotus offers perhaps the best logic and metaphysics for modern physical science [Peirce]