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All the ideas for 'A Puzzle about Belief', 'The Evolution of Physics' and 'The philosophical basis of intuitionist logic'

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4. Formal Logic / E. Nonclassical Logics / 2. Intuitionist Logic

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Dummett says classical logic rests on meaning as truth, while intuitionist logic rests on assertability [Dummett, by Kitcher]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 1. Quantification

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Classical quantification is an infinite conjunction or disjunction - but you may not know all the instances [Dummett]

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 5. Mental Files

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Puzzled Pierre has two mental files about the same object [Recanati on Kripke]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions

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Stating a sentence's truth-conditions is just paraphrasing the sentence [Dummett]

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If a sentence is effectively undecidable, we can never know its truth conditions [Dummett]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use

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Meaning as use puts use beyond criticism, and needs a holistic view of language [Dummett]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / b. Fields

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The concept of a field gradually replaced the substances in explaining relations between charges [Einstein/Infeld]