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All the ideas for 'What Price Bivalence?', 'On the Pragmatics of Communications' and 'Intro to 'Provenance of Pure Reason''

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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]

5. Theory of Logic / K. Features of Logics / 1. Axiomatisation

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Mathematics must be based on axioms, which are true because they are axioms, not vice versa [Tait, by Parsons,C]

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]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use

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To understand language is to know how to use it to reach shared understandings [Habermas]