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All the ideas for 'To be is to be the value of a variable..', 'Empiricist View of Religion' and 'Ethical Criticism and the Vice of Moderation'

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20 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 8. Humour
22701 Jokes can sometimes be funny because they are offensive [Jacobson,D]
4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 5. Conceptions of Set / a. Sets as existing
7785 The use of plurals doesn't commit us to sets; there do not exist individuals and collections [Boolos]
4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 8. Critique of Set Theory
10699 Does a bowl of Cheerios contain all its sets and subsets? [Boolos]
5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 7. Second-Order Logic
10225 Monadic second-order logic might be understood in terms of plural quantifiers [Boolos, by Shapiro]
10736 Boolos showed how plural quantifiers can interpret monadic second-order logic [Boolos, by Linnebo]
10780 Any sentence of monadic second-order logic can be translated into plural first-order logic [Boolos, by Linnebo]
5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 4. Identity in Logic
10697 Identity is clearly a logical concept, and greatly enhances predicate calculus [Boolos]
5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 5. Second-Order Quantification
13671 Second-order quantifiers are just like plural quantifiers in ordinary language, with no extra ontology [Boolos, by Shapiro]
5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 6. Plural Quantification
10267 We should understand second-order existential quantifiers as plural quantifiers [Boolos, by Shapiro]
10698 Plural forms have no more ontological commitment than to first-order objects [Boolos]
5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 7. Unorthodox Quantification
7806 Boolos invented plural quantification [Boolos, by Benardete,JA]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / b. Commitment of quantifiers
10700 First- and second-order quantifiers are two ways of referring to the same things [Boolos]
21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 2. Aesthetic Attitude
22703 We don't often respond to events in art as if they were real events [Jacobson,D]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality
22702 Audiences can be too moral [Jacobson,D]
22696 'Autonomism' says the morality is irrelevant to the aesthetics [Jacobson,D]
22697 Moral defects of art can be among its aesthetic virtues [Jacobson,D]
22700 Immoral art encourages immoral emotions [Jacobson,D]
22699 Moderate moralism says moral qualities can sometimes also be aesthetic qualities [Jacobson,D]
22698 We can judge art ethically, or rate its ethical influence, or assess its quality via its ethics [Jacobson,D]
29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / b. Religious Meaning
1468 If meaning is use, then religious sentences have meaning because they are used to assert an intention about how to live [Braithwaite, by PG]