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All the ideas for 'The Roots of Reference', 'Mechanism, purpose and explan. exclusion' and 'Vagueness'

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5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / a. Logical connectives

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Logical connectives have the highest precision, yet are infected by the vagueness of true and false [Russell, by Williamson]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / d. Vagueness as linguistic

9051	Since natural language is not precise it cannot be in the province of logic [Russell, by Keefe/Smith]

9054	Vagueness is only a characteristic of representations, such as language [Russell]

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]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 1. Explanation / a. Explanation

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Explanatory exclusion: there cannot be two separate complete explanations of a single event [Kim]