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All the ideas for 'Through the Looking Glass', 'Introduction to a Secret Encyclopaedia' and 'The Runabout Inference Ticket'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 2. Analysis by Division

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Analysing right down to primitive concepts seems beyond our powers [Leibniz]

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 8. Subjective Truth

5022	We hold a proposition true if we are ready to follow it, and can't see any objections [Leibniz]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / a. Logical connectives

17896

We need to know the meaning of 'and', prior to its role in reasoning [Prior,AN, by Belnap]

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Prior's 'tonk' is inconsistent, since it allows the non-conservative inference A |- B [Belnap on Prior,AN]

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Prior rejected accounts of logical connectives by inference pattern, with 'tonk' his absurd example [Prior,AN, by Read]

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Maybe introducing or defining logical connectives by rules of inference leads to absurdity [Prior,AN, by Hacking]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing

21982

I only wish I had such eyes as to see Nobody! It's as much as I can do to see real people. [Carroll,L]