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All the ideas for 'poems', 'Whitehead and the Rise of Modern Logic' and 'Commentary on 'Posterior Analytics'

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5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 7. Second-Order Logic

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Quine says higher-order items are intensional, and lack a clearly defined identity relation [Quine, by Shapiro]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / b. Type theory

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Russell confused use and mention, and reduced classes to properties, not to language [Quine, by Lackey]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 8. Abstractionism Critique

9074	Abstraction cannot produce the concept of a 'game', as there is no one common feature [Barnes,J]

9073	Abstraction from an ambiguous concept like 'mole' will define them as the same [Barnes,J]

9072	Defining concepts by abstractions will collect together far too many attributes from entities [Barnes,J]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

6017	Nomos is king [Pindar]