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All the ideas for 'Molyneux's Question', 'The Search After Truth' and 'Plural Quantification Exposed'

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8 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 / 6. Plural Quantification

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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]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes

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Everything that exists is either a being, or some mode of a being [Malebranche]

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

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

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / d. Sense-data problems

7639	The Homunculus Fallacy explains a subject perceiving objects by repeating the problem internally [Evans]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

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In a true cause we see a necessary connection [Malebranche]