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Ideas of Vann McGee, by Text
[American, fl. 2006, Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]
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Natural language includes connectives like 'because' which are not truth-functional
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Validity is explained as truth in all models, because that relies on the logical terms
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An ontologically secure semantics for predicate calculus relies on sets
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Logically valid sentences are analytic truths which are just true because of their logical words
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Soundness theorems are uninformative, because they rely on soundness in their proofs
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The culmination of Euclidean geometry was axioms that made all models isomorphic
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Second-order variables need to range over more than collections of first-order objects
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A maxim claims that if we are allowed to assert a sentence, that means it must be true
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