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All the ideas for 'What Price Bivalence?', 'An Axiomatization of Set Theory' and 'What is so bad about Contradictions?'

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5 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 3. Non-Contradiction

9123	Someone standing in a doorway seems to be both in and not-in the room [Priest,G, by Sorensen]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 5. Conceptions of Set / f. Limitation of Size

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Limitation of Size is not self-evident, and seems too strong [Lavine on Neumann]

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 1. Bivalence

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Bivalence applies not just to sentences, but that general terms are true or false of each object [Quine]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 6. Mathematics as Set Theory / a. Mathematics is set theory

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All the axioms for mathematics presuppose set theory [Neumann]

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

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Terms learned by ostension tend to be vague, because that must be quick and unrefined [Quine]