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All the ideas for 'Brandom on Social Practices and Representations', 'A Plea for Substitutional Quantification' and 'Contemporary Efficient Causation: Aristotelian themes'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy

19090

If we can't check our language against experience, philosophy is just comparing beliefs and words [Rorty]

4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 4. Alethic Modal Logic

9470	Modal logic is not an extensional language [Parsons,C]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 4. Substitutional Quantification

9469	Substitutional existential quantifier may explain the existence of linguistic entities [Parsons,C]

9468	On the substitutional interpretation, '(∃x) Fx' is true iff a closed term 't' makes Ft true [Parsons,C]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation

19068

Causation interests us because we want to explain change [Mumford]