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All the ideas for 'Whitehead and the Rise of Modern Logic', 'The Metaphysics of Space-Time Substantivalism' and 'Letters to Fichte'

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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]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / g. Contemplation

7071	Life and rationality are pointless if we can only contemplate the freedom of our own ego [Jacobi]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 2. Nihilism

7072	Jacobi was the first philosopher to talk of nihilism [Jacobi, by Critchley]

27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 4. Substantival Space

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General Relativity allows substantivalism about space-time - that it has independent properties [Hoefer]