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All the ideas for 'The Roots of Reference', 'Letters to Jourdain' and 'Process Philosophy'

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

8447	In 'Etna is higher than Vesuvius' the whole of Etna, including all the lava, can't be the reference [Frege]

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / b. Names as descriptive

8448	Any object can have many different names, each with a distinct sense [Frege]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes

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Process philosophy places the dynamic nature of being at the centre of our theories [Seibt]

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Reductionists identify processes by their 'owner', but tornadoes etc. are processes without owners [Seibt]

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Traditionally small things add up to processes, but quantum mechanics reverses this [Seibt]

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]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / a. Sentence meaning

8446	We understand new propositions by constructing their sense from the words [Frege]

19. Language / B. Reference / 4. Descriptive Reference / a. Sense and reference

8449	Senses can't be subjective, because propositions would be private, and disagreement impossible [Frege]