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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Logical Form of Action Sentences' and 'The Development of Logic'

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4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / f. Axiom of Infinity V

10051

The axiom of infinity is not a truth of logic, and its adoption is an abandonment of logicism [Kneale,W and M]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events

7771	We need 'events' to explain adverbs, which are adjectival predicates of events [Davidson, by Lycan]

8860	Language-learning is not good enough evidence for the existence of events [Yablo on Davidson]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / d. Commitment of theories

15002

If the best theory of adverbs refers to events, then our ontology should include events [Davidson, by Sider]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention

1556	By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]