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All the ideas for 'A Problem about Substitutional Quantification?st1=Saul A. Kripke', 'The Human Animal' and 'Russell's Ontological Development'

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2. Reason / D. Definition / 12. Paraphrase

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Russell offered a paraphrase of definite description, to avoid the commitment to objects [Quine]

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

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The substitutional quantifier is not in competition with the standard interpretation [Kripke, by Marcus (Barcan)]

16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 7. Self and Body / a. Self needs body

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Maybe our persistence conditions concern bodies, rather than persons [Olson, by Hawley]

6669	For 'animalism', I exist before I became a person, and can continue after it, so I am not a person [Olson, by Lowe]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / a. Sentence meaning

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Taking sentences as the unit of meaning makes useful paraphrasing possible [Quine]

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Knowing a word is knowing the meanings of sentences which contain it [Quine]