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All the ideas for 'Natural Kinds and Biological Realism', 'Forget the 'correspondence theory of truth'' and 'Quine on Quantifying In'

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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 5. Truth Bearers

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To be true a sentence must express a proposition, and not be ambiguous or vague or just expressive [Lewis]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 2. Truthmaker Relation

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Truthmakers are about existential grounding, not about truth [Lewis]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 11. Truthmaking and Correspondence

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Truthmaker is correspondence, but without the requirement to be one-to-one [Lewis]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 1. Logical Form

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Is it the sentence-token or the sentence-type that has a logical form? [Fine,K]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 4. Substitutional Quantification

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Substitutional quantification is referential quantification over expressions [Fine,K]

26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 1. Natural Kinds

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Some kinds are very explanatory, but others less so, and some not at all [Devitt]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 5. Species

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The higher categories are not natural kinds, so the Linnaean hierarchy should be given up [Devitt]

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Species pluralism says there are several good accounts of what a species is [Devitt]