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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'In Defence of Convention T' and 'Constructibility and Mathematical Existence'

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4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 8. Critique of Set Theory
8758 We could talk of open sentences, instead of sets [Chihara, by Shapiro]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / b. Type theory
10265 Chihara's system is a variant of type theory, from which he can translate sentences [Chihara, by Shapiro]
8759 We can replace type theory with open sentences and a constructibility quantifier [Chihara, by Shapiro]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / a. Constructivism
10264 Introduce a constructibility quantifiers (Cx)Φ - 'it is possible to construct an x such that Φ' [Chihara, by Shapiro]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 6. Constitution of an Object
6019 If someone squashed a horse to make a dog, something new would now exist [Mnesarchus]
19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 5. Fregean Semantics
7331 A theory of meaning comes down to translating sentences into Fregean symbolic logic [Davidson, by Macey]