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All the ideas for 'Intensional Logic', 'The Development of Logic' and 'Popular Scientific Lectures'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 2. Positivism

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Laws of nature are just records of regularities and correlations, with concepts to make recording them easier [Mach, by Harré]

4. Formal Logic / E. Nonclassical Logics / 8. Intensional Logic

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If terms change their designations in different states, they are functions from states to objects [Fitting]

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Intensional logic adds a second type of quantification, over intensional objects, or individual concepts [Fitting]

4. Formal Logic / E. Nonclassical Logics / 9. Awareness Logic

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Awareness logic adds the restriction of an awareness function to epistemic logic [Fitting]

4. Formal Logic / E. Nonclassical Logics / 10. Justification Logics

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Justication logics make explicit the reasons for mathematical truth in proofs [Fitting]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / f. Axiom of Infinity V

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The axiom of infinity is not a truth of logic, and its adoption is an abandonment of logicism [Kneale,W and M]

5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 8. Logic of Mathematics

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Classical logic is deliberately extensional, in order to model mathematics [Fitting]

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 3. Property (λ-) Abstraction

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λ-abstraction disambiguates the scope of modal operators [Fitting]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / a. Transworld identity

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Definite descriptions pick out different objects in different possible worlds [Fitting]