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All the ideas for 'Aristotle and Descartes on Matter', 'Steps Towards a Constructive Nominalism' and 'Presupposition'

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4. Formal Logic / A. Syllogistic Logic / 3. Term Logic

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Logic would be more natural if negation only referred to predicates [Dummett]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / c. not

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Natural language 'not' doesn't apply to sentences [Dummett]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta

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We renounce all abstract entities [Goodman/Quine]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / b. Prime matter

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Prime matter is nothing when it is at rest [Leibniz]