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All the ideas for 'The Problem of Empty Names', 'Foundations of Geometry' and 'Semantics for Natural Languages'

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5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 3. If-Thenism

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Geometrical axioms imply the propositions, but the former may not be true [Russell]

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / e. Empty names

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Unreflectively, we all assume there are nonexistents, and we can refer to them [Reimer]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 3. Axioms for Geometry

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Geometry is united by the intuitive axioms of projective geometry [Russell, by Musgrave]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions

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Davidson rejected ordinary meaning, and just used truth and reference instead [Davidson, by Soames]

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Davidson aimed to show that language is structured by first-order logic [Davidson, by Smart]