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All the ideas for 'What Price Bivalence?', 'Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Tractatus' and 'Marx'

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 3. Hermeneutics

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Interpreting a text is representing it as making sense [Morris,M]

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

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Bipolarity adds to Bivalence the capacity for both truth values [Morris,M]

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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 / G. Quantification / 1. Quantification

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Conjunctive and disjunctive quantifiers are too specific, and are confined to the finite [Morris,M]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / c. Counting procedure

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Counting needs to distinguish things, and also needs the concept of a successor in a series [Morris,M]

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To count, we must distinguish things, and have a series with successors in it [Morris,M]

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Discriminating things for counting implies concepts of identity and distinctness [Morris,M]

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 / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions

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There must exist a general form of propositions, which are predictabe. It is: such and such is the case [Morris,M]

24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 4. Changing the State / c. Revolution

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In Marxism the state will be superseded [Singer]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 9. Communism

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Materialist history says we are subject to incomprehensible forces [Singer]