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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Whitehead and the Rise of Modern Logic' and 'The Foundations of Mathematics'

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5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 7. Second-Order Logic

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Quine says higher-order items are intensional, and lack a clearly defined identity relation [Quine, by Shapiro]

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 2. Excluded Middle

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You would cripple mathematics if you denied Excluded Middle [Hilbert]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / b. Type theory

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Russell confused use and mention, and reduced classes to properties, not to language [Quine, by Lackey]

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

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