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All the ideas for 'What Price Bivalence?', 'The Philosophical Culture' and 'What is so bad about Contradictions?'

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism

1489	Modern philosophy tends to be a theory-constructing extension of science, but there is also problem-solving [Nagel]

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]

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

19043

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

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

19042

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