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Ideas for 'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'What are Sets and What are they For?' and 'Proper Names'

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5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / b. Names as descriptive

7746	We don't normally think of names as having senses (e.g. we don't give definitions of them) [Searle]

7747	How can a proper name be correlated with its object if it hasn't got a sense? [Searle]

7748	'Aristotle' means more than just 'an object that was christened "Aristotle"' [Searle]

7749	Reference for proper names presupposes a set of uniquely referring descriptions [Searle]

7750	Proper names are logically connected with their characteristics, in a loose way [Searle]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 6. Plural Quantification

14234

If you only refer to objects one at a time, you need sets in order to refer to a plurality [Oliver/Smiley]

14237

We can use plural language to refer to the set theory domain, to avoid calling it a 'set' [Oliver/Smiley]

5. Theory of Logic / I. Semantics of Logic / 3. Logical Truth

14245

Logical truths are true no matter what exists - but predicate calculus insists that something exists [Oliver/Smiley]