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All the ideas for 'Reference and Reflexivity', 'Disputed questions about truth' and 'Logicism in the 21st Century'

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3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth
22104 Truth is the conformity of being to intellect [Aquinas]
6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 5. Definitions of Number / d. Hume's Principle
8784 Neo-logicism founds arithmetic on Hume's Principle along with second-order logic [Hale/Wright]
6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 5. Definitions of Number / e. Caesar problem
8787 The Julius Caesar problem asks for a criterion for the concept of a 'number' [Hale/Wright]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / a. Early logicism
8788 Logicism is only noteworthy if logic has a privileged position in our ontology and epistemology [Hale/Wright]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / c. Neo-logicism
8783 Logicism might also be revived with a quantificational approach, or an abstraction-free approach [Hale/Wright]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / f. Primary being
22103 Being is basic to thought, and all other concepts are additions to being [Aquinas]
18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 9. Indexical Thought
16391 Indexical thoughts are about themselves, and ascribe properties to themselves [Perry, by Recanati]
18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 7. Abstracta by Equivalence
8786 One first-order abstraction principle is Frege's definition of 'direction' in terms of parallel lines [Hale/Wright]