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All the ideas for 'The philosophical basis of intuitionist logic', 'The Golden Bowl, and Lit as Moral Philosophy' and 'The Human Body is a sort of Machine'

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4. Formal Logic / E. Nonclassical Logics / 2. Intuitionist Logic
18073 Dummett says classical logic rests on meaning as truth, while intuitionist logic rests on assertability [Dummett, by Kitcher]
5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 1. Quantification
19057 Classical quantification is an infinite conjunction or disjunction - but you may not know all the instances [Dummett]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions
19055 Stating a sentence's truth-conditions is just paraphrasing the sentence [Dummett]
19056 If a sentence is effectively undecidable, we can never know its truth conditions [Dummett]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use
19054 Meaning as use puts use beyond criticism, and needs a holistic view of language [Dummett]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality
22688 The Aristotelian idea that choices can be perceived needs literary texts to expound it [Nussbaum]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / b. Limited purposes
19376 A machine is best defined by its final cause, which explains the roles of the parts [Leibniz]