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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Individuation of Events' and 'Plural Quantification Exposed'

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11 ideas

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 / 2. Domain of Quantification

18914

Davidson controversially proposed to quantify over events [Davidson, by Engelbretsen]

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

10778

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

10783

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

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / b. Events as primitive

9843	You can't identify events by causes and effects, as the event needs to be known first [Dummett on Davidson]

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Events can only be individuated causally [Davidson, by Schaffer,J]

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We need events for action statements, causal statements, explanation, mind-and-body, and adverbs [Davidson, by Bourne]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events

8278	The claim that events are individuated by their causal relations to other events is circular [Lowe on Davidson]

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

10782

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

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

468	Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]