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Ideas of George Engelbretsen, by Text
[Canadian, fl. 2011, Professor at Bishop's University, Canada.]
2005
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Trees, Terms and Truth
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p.37
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18913
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Traditional term logic struggled to express relations
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p.32
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18907
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Term logic rests on negated terms or denial, and that propositions are tied pairs
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p.32
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18905
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Propositions can be analysed as pairs of terms glued together by predication
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p.32
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18906
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Negating a predicate term and denying its unnegated version are quite different
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p.33
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18908
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Standard logic only negates sentences, even via negated general terms or predicates
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p.36
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18912
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Was logic a branch of mathematics, or mathematics a branch of logic?
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p.41
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18915
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If facts are the truthmakers, they are not in the world
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p.43
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18918
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Terms denote objects with properties, and statements denote the world with that property
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p.43
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18917
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Existence and nonexistence are characteristics of the world, not of objects
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p.43
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18916
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Facts are not in the world - they are properties of the world
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p.44
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18919
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There are no 'falsifying' facts, only an absence of truthmakers
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p.46
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18920
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'Socrates is wise' denotes a sentence; 'that Socrates is wise' denotes a proposition
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p.47
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18921
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Individuals are arranged in inclusion categories that match our semantics
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p.47
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18922
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Logical syntax is actually close to surface linguistic form
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