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All the ideas for 'Causal Connections', 'There is no a Priori' and 'Plural Quantification Exposed'

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4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / n. Axiom of Comprehension

10779

A comprehension axiom is 'predicative' if the formula has no bound second-order variables [Linnebo]

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

10781

A 'pure logic' must be ontologically innocent, universal, and without presuppositions [Linnebo]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 6. Plural Quantification

10783

Plural quantification depends too heavily on combinatorial and set-theoretic considerations [Linnebo]

10778

Can second-order logic be ontologically first-order, with all the benefits of second-order? [Linnebo]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 1. Physical Objects

10782

The modern concept of an object is rooted in quantificational logic [Linnebo]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities

9354	Why should necessities only be knowable a priori? That Hesperus is Phosporus is known empirically [Devitt]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 9. A Priori from Concepts

9353	We explain away a priori knowledge, not as directly empirical, but as indirectly holistically empirical [Devitt]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 11. Denying the A Priori

9356	The idea of the a priori is so obscure that it won't explain anything [Devitt]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata

4784	Salmon says processes rather than events should be basic in a theory of physical causation [Salmon, by Psillos]