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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'On the Philosophy of Logic' and 'Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Tractatus'

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18 ideas

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 3. Hermeneutics

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Interpreting a text is representing it as making sense [Morris,M]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 1. On Reason

8952	We reach 'reflective equilibrium' when intuitions and theory completely align [Fisher]

4. Formal Logic / E. Nonclassical Logics / 3. Many-Valued Logic

8943	Three-valued logic says excluded middle and non-contradition are not tautologies [Fisher]

4. Formal Logic / E. Nonclassical Logics / 4. Fuzzy Logic

8945	Fuzzy logic has many truth values, ranging in fractions from 0 to 1 [Fisher]

5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 6. Classical Logic

8951	Classical logic is: excluded middle, non-contradiction, contradictions imply all, disjunctive syllogism [Fisher]

5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 2. Platonism in Logic

8950	Logic formalizes how we should reason, but it shouldn't determine whether we are realists [Fisher]

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 1. Bivalence

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Bipolarity adds to Bivalence the capacity for both truth values [Morris,M]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 1. Quantification

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Conjunctive and disjunctive quantifiers are too specific, and are confined to the finite [Morris,M]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / c. Counting procedure

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To count, we must distinguish things, and have a series with successors in it [Morris,M]

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Counting needs to distinguish things, and also needs the concept of a successor in a series [Morris,M]

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Discriminating things for counting implies concepts of identity and distinctness [Morris,M]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / g. Degrees of vagueness

8946	We could make our intuitions about heaps precise with a million-valued logic [Fisher]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / e. Vague objects

8944	Vagueness can involve components (like baldness), or not (like boredom) [Fisher]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

8941	We can't explain 'possibility' in terms of 'possible' worlds [Fisher]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / c. Truth-function conditionals

8947	If all truths are implied by a falsehood, then not-p might imply both q and not-q [Fisher]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / d. Non-truthfunction conditionals

8949	In relevance logic, conditionals help information to flow from antecedent to consequent [Fisher]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions

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There must exist a general form of propositions, which are predictabe. It is: such and such is the case [Morris,M]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

468	Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]