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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Philosophical Logic: Intro to Advanced Topics' and 'Personal Identity'

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4. Formal Logic / A. Syllogistic Logic / 1. Aristotelian Logic

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The four 'perfect syllogisms' are called Barbara, Celarent, Darii and Ferio [Engelbretsen/Sayward]

13914

Syllogistic logic has one rule: what is affirmed/denied of wholes is affirmed/denied of their parts [Engelbretsen/Sayward]

4. Formal Logic / A. Syllogistic Logic / 2. Syllogistic Logic

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Syllogistic can't handle sentences with singular terms, or relational terms, or compound sentences [Engelbretsen/Sayward]

4. Formal Logic / A. Syllogistic Logic / 3. Term Logic

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Term logic uses expression letters and brackets, and '-' for negative terms, and '+' for compound terms [Engelbretsen/Sayward]

5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 4. Pure Logic

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In modern logic all formal validity can be characterised syntactically [Engelbretsen/Sayward]

5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 6. Classical Logic

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Classical logic rests on truth and models, where constructivist logic rests on defence and refutation [Engelbretsen/Sayward]

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 4. Identity in Logic

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Unlike most other signs, = cannot be eliminated [Engelbretsen/Sayward]

5. Theory of Logic / K. Features of Logics / 5. Incompleteness

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Axioms are ω-incomplete if the instances are all derivable, but the universal quantification isn't [Engelbretsen/Sayward]

16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 5. Self as Associations

3539	Personal identity is just causally related mental states [Parfit, by Maslin]

16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / b. Self as mental continuity

1393	One of my future selves will not necessarily be me [Parfit]

16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 4. Split Consciousness

1392	If we split like amoeba, we would be two people, neither of them being us [Parfit]

16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 5. Concerns of the Self

1391	Concern for our own lives isn't the source of belief in identity, it is the result of it [Parfit]

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / b. Education principles

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Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / d. Time as measure

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Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus]