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All the ideas for 'Philosophical Fragments', 'Commentary on 'Physics'' and 'Whitehead and the Rise of Modern Logic'

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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]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence

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I assume existence, rather than reasoning towards it [Kierkegaard]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 6. Successive Things

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Days exist, and yet they seem to be made up of parts which don't exist [Burley]

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Unlike permanent things, successive things cannot exist all at once [Burley]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 2. Nature of Necessity

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Nothing necessary can come into existence, since it already 'is' [Kierkegaard]