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All the ideas for 'The Problem of Empty Names', 'fragments/reports' and 'Logicism Revisited'

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

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The If-thenist view only seems to work for the axiomatised portions of mathematics [Musgrave]

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Perhaps If-thenism survives in mathematics if we stick to first-order logic [Musgrave]

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]

5. Theory of Logic / I. Semantics of Logic / 3. Logical Truth

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Logical truths may contain non-logical notions, as in 'all men are men' [Musgrave]

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A statement is logically true if it comes out true in all interpretations in all (non-empty) domains [Musgrave]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 4. Axioms for Number / d. Peano arithmetic

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No two numbers having the same successor relies on the Axiom of Infinity [Musgrave]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 7. Formalism

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Formalism is a bulwark of logical positivism [Musgrave]

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Formalism seems to exclude all creative, growing mathematics [Musgrave]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification

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Logical positivists adopted an If-thenist version of logicism about numbers [Musgrave]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia

5996	Critolaus redefined Aristotle's moral aim as fulfilment instead of happiness [Critolaus, by White,SA]