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All the ideas for 'The Roots of Reference', 'Papers of 1913' and 'Presupposition'

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

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Logic would be more natural if negation only referred to predicates [Dummett]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / c. not

19052

Natural language 'not' doesn't apply to sentences [Dummett]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived

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Dispositions are physical states of mechanism; when known, these replace the old disposition term [Quine]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

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Only the actual exists, so possibilities always reduce to actuality after full analysis [Russell]