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All the ideas for 'Reference and Generality (3rd ed)', 'Title, Unity, Authenticity of the 'Categories'' and 'Truth and Method'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 3. Earlier European Philosophy / b. Early medieval philosophy

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Earlier views of Aristotle were dominated by 'Categories' [Frede,M]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / d. Counting via concepts

12154

Are 'word token' and 'word type' different sorts of countable objects, or two ways of counting? [Geach, by Perry]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being

22333

Only language is understandable Being [Gadamer]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 6. Nihilism about Objects

8969	We should abandon absolute identity, confining it to within some category [Geach, by Hawthorne]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity

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Denial of absolute identity has drastic implications for logic, semantics and set theory [Wasserman on Geach]

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Identity is relative. One must not say things are 'the same', but 'the same A as' [Geach]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 8. Leibniz's Law

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Leibniz's Law is incomplete, since it includes a non-relativized identity predicate [Geach, by Wasserman]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / b. Fact and value

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Facts don't oppose values; they are integrated into each person's aspirations [Gadamer, by Zimmermann,J]