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All the ideas for 'Letters to Edward Stillingfleet', 'Reply to Professor Marcus' and 'Reference and Generality (3rd ed)'

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5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 4. Substitutional Quantification

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Either reference really matters, or we don't need to replace it with substitutions [Quine]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / d. Counting via concepts

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Are 'word token' and 'word type' different sorts of countable objects, or two ways of counting? [Geach, by Perry]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 6. Nihilism about Objects

8969	We should abandon absolute identity, confining it to within some category [Geach, by Hawthorne]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences

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Every individual thing which exists has an essence, which is its internal constitution [Locke]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity

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Denial of absolute identity has drastic implications for logic, semantics and set theory [Wasserman on Geach]

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Identity is relative. One must not say things are 'the same', but 'the same A as' [Geach]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 8. Leibniz's Law

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Leibniz's Law is incomplete, since it includes a non-relativized identity predicate [Geach, by Wasserman]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty

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If it is knowledge, it is certain; if it isn't certain, it isn't knowledge [Locke]