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All the ideas for 'Reply to 'Rorarius' 2nd ed', 'Plural Quantification Exposed' and 'Proper Names'

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4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / n. Axiom of Comprehension

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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

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A 'pure logic' must be ontologically innocent, universal, and without presuppositions [Linnebo]

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / b. Names as descriptive

7746	We don't normally think of names as having senses (e.g. we don't give definitions of them) [Searle]

7747	How can a proper name be correlated with its object if it hasn't got a sense? [Searle]

7748	'Aristotle' means more than just 'an object that was christened "Aristotle"' [Searle]

7749	Reference for proper names presupposes a set of uniquely referring descriptions [Searle]

7750	Proper names are logically connected with their characteristics, in a loose way [Searle]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 6. Plural Quantification

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Can second-order logic be ontologically first-order, with all the benefits of second-order? [Linnebo]

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Plural quantification depends too heavily on combinatorial and set-theoretic considerations [Linnebo]

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]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / b. Relative time

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Space and time are the order of all possibilities, and don't just relate to what is actual [Leibniz]