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Ideas of Charles Parsons, by Text
[American, fl. 1980, Professor at Columbia University, then Harvard University.]
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1965
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Frege's Theory of Numbers
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p.194
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Parsons says counting is tagging as first, second, third..., and converting the last to a cardinal [Heck]
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1971
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A Plea for Substitutional Quantification
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p.156
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p.156
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Substitutional existential quantifier may explain the existence of linguistic entities
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p.156
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p.156
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9468
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On the substitutional interpretation, '(∃x) Fx' is true iff a closed term 't' makes Ft true
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p.159 n8
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p.159
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Modal logic is not an extensional language
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1980
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Mathematical Intuition
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p.152
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p.106
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General principles can be obvious in mathematics, but bold speculations in empirical science
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2009
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Review of Tait 'Provenance of Pure Reason'
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§2
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p.224
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If a mathematical structure is rejected from a physical theory, it retains its mathematical status
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§2
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p.225
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13418
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The old problems with the axiom of choice are probably better ascribed to the law of excluded middle
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§4
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p.237
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If functions are transfinite objects, finitists can have no conception of them
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