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All the ideas for 'Paradoxes: Form and Predication', 'Lecture on Nominalism' and 'Set Theory and the Continuum Hypothesis'

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2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 1. Fallacy

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The Struthionic Fallacy is that of burying one's head in the sand [Quine]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 6. Relations in Logic

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All relations, apart from ancestrals, can be reduced to simpler logic [Quine]

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

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Saying 'they can become a set' is a tautology, because reference to 'they' implies a collection [Cargile]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 3. Mathematical Nominalism

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Nominalism rejects both attributes and classes (where extensionalism accepts the classes) [Quine]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / a. Constructivism

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We could accept the integers as primitive, then use sets to construct the rest [Cohen]