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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Set Theory and its Logic' and 'Entity and Identity'

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5 ideas

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / p. Axiom of Reducibility

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Reducibility undermines type ramification, and is committed to the existence of functions [Quine, by Linsky,B]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / b. Need for abstracta

16980

We need a logical use of 'object' as predicate-worthy, and an 'ontological' use [Strawson,P]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences

16979

It makes no sense to ask of some individual thing what it is that makes it that individual [Strawson,P]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]