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All the ideas for 'Dthat', 'talk' and 'The Runabout Inference Ticket'

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7 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 3. Value of Logic

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Set theory and logic are fairy tales, but still worth studying [Tarski]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / a. Logical connectives

17896

We need to know the meaning of 'and', prior to its role in reasoning [Prior,AN, by Belnap]

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Prior's 'tonk' is inconsistent, since it allows the non-conservative inference A |- B [Belnap on Prior,AN]

11021

Prior rejected accounts of logical connectives by inference pattern, with 'tonk' his absurd example [Prior,AN, by Read]

13836

Maybe introducing or defining logical connectives by rules of inference leads to absurdity [Prior,AN, by Hacking]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / a. Nominalism

10151

I am a deeply convinced nominalist [Tarski]

19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / b. Causal reference

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Are causal descriptions part of the causal theory of reference, or are they just metasemantic? [Kaplan, by Schaffer,J]