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All the ideas for 'Dthat', 'works' and 'The Theory of Logical Types'

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5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 5. Functions in Logic

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'Propositional functions' are ambiguous until the variable is given a value [Russell]

5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 6. Paradoxes in Language / a. The Liar paradox

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'All judgements made by Epimenedes are true' needs the judgements to be of the same type [Russell]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / b. Type theory

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Type theory cannot identify features across levels (because such predicates break the rules) [Morris,M on Russell]

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Classes are defined by propositional functions, and functions are typed, with an axiom of reducibility [Russell, by Lackey]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / d. Predicativism

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A one-variable function is only 'predicative' if it is one order above its arguments [Russell]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 5. Essence as Kind

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Only natural kinds and their members have real essences [Suárez, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]

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]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation

7563	The old 'influx' view of causation says it is a flow of accidental properties from A to B [Suárez, by Jolley]