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All the ideas for 'Review of Parsons (1983)', 'Identity and Reference' and 'On the Elements of Being: I'

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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / b. Indispensability of mathematics

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Mathematics is part of science; transfinite mathematics I take as mostly uninterpreted [Quine]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes

8508	A 'trope' is an abstract particular, the occurrence of an essence [Williams,DC]

8509	A world is completely constituted by its tropes and their connections [Williams,DC]

8510	'Socrates is wise' means a concurrence sum contains a member of a similarity set [Williams,DC]

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 5. Mental Files

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An identity statement aims at getting the hearer to merge two mental files [Lockwood]