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All the ideas for 'Mathematical Logic (revised)', 'How to Make our Ideas Clear' and 'Neutral Relations'

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11 ideas

3. Truth / E. Pragmatic Truth / 1. Pragmatic Truth

7661	Truth is the opinion fated to be ultimately agreed by all investigators [Peirce]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 4. Variables in Logic

12221

'Corner quotes' (quasi-quotation) designate 'whatever these terms designate' [Quine]

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / f. Names eliminated

19321

We might do without names, by converting them into predicates [Quine, by Kirkham]

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations

14219

Language imposes a direction on a road which is not really part of the road [Fine,K]

14217

The 'standard' view of relations is that they hold of several objects in a given order [Fine,K]

14216

The 'positionalist' view of relations says the number of places is fixed, but not the order [Fine,K]

14218

A block on top of another contains one relation, not both 'on top of' and 'beneath' [Fine,K]

14220

Explain biased relations as orderings of the unbiased, or the unbiased as permutation classes of the biased? [Fine,K]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

19089

Our whole conception of an object is its possible practical consequences [Peirce]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / b. Elements of beliefs

7660	We are aware of beliefs, they appease our doubts, and they are rules of action, or habits [Peirce]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification

14906

Non-positivist verificationism says only take a hypothesis seriously if it is scientifically based and testable [Ladyman/Ross on Peirce]