Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Parthood and Identity across Time', 'Plural Quantification Exposed' and 'Causes and Events: Mackie on causation'

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7 ideas

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / n. Axiom of Comprehension

10779

A comprehension axiom is 'predicative' if the formula has no bound second-order variables [Linnebo]

5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 4. Pure Logic

10781

A 'pure logic' must be ontologically innocent, universal, and without presuppositions [Linnebo]

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

10783

Plural quantification depends too heavily on combinatorial and set-theoretic considerations [Linnebo]

10778

Can second-order logic be ontologically first-order, with all the benefits of second-order? [Linnebo]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events

4779	For Kim, events are exemplifications of properties by objects at particular times [Kim, by Psillos]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 1. Physical Objects

10782

The modern concept of an object is rooted in quantificational logic [Linnebo]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 5. Temporal Parts

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Temporal parts is a crazy doctrine, because it entails constantly creating stuff ex nihilo [Thomson, by Koslicki]