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All the ideas for 'Attacks (frags)', 'The Development of Logic' and 'Replies to Critics'

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3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth

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Names, descriptions and predicates refer to things; without that, language and thought are baffling [Davidson]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / f. Axiom of Infinity V

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The axiom of infinity is not a truth of logic, and its adoption is an abandonment of logicism [Kneale,W and M]

5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 4. Paradoxes in Logic / a. Achilles paradox

1507	We don't have time for infinite quantity, but we do for infinite divisibility, because time is also divisible [Aristotle on Zeno of Elea]

5109	The fast runner must always reach the point from which the slower runner started [Zeno of Elea, by Aristotle]

5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 6. Paradoxes in Language / b. The Heap paradox ('Sorites')

1512	Zeno is wrong that one grain of millet makes a sound; why should one grain achieve what the whole bushel does? [Aristotle on Zeno of Elea]

5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 7. Paradoxes of Time

1508	Zeno's arrow paradox depends on the assumption that time is composed of nows [Aristotle on Zeno of Elea]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 1. Nature

454	If there are many things they must have a finite number, but there must be endless things between them [Zeno of Elea]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

455	That which moves, moves neither in the place in which it is, nor in that in which it is not [Zeno of Elea]

27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 5. Relational Space

1511	If everything is in a place, what is the place in? Place doesn't exist [Zeno of Elea, by Simplicius]