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All the ideas for 'Structure and Nature', 'fragments/reports' and 'Inexpressible Properties and Propositions'

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7 ideas

3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 3. Minimalist Truth

17990

Instances of minimal truth miss out propositions inexpressible in current English [Hofweber]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 4. Substitutional Quantification

17988

Quantification can't all be substitutional; some reference is obviously to objects [Hofweber]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 7. Mathematical Structuralism / a. Structuralism

10242

I apply structuralism to concrete and abstract objects indiscriminately [Quine]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism

10243

My ontology is quarks etc., classes of such things, classes of such classes etc. [Quine]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties

17989

Since properties have properties, there can be a typed or a type-free theory of them [Hofweber]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / a. Translation

17991

Holism says language can't be translated; the expressibility hypothesis says everything can [Hofweber]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

3029	Stilpo said if Athena is a daughter of Zeus, then a statue is only the child of a sculptor, and so is not a god [Stilpo, by Diog. Laertius]