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All the ideas for 'reports', 'Gentzen's Analysis of First-Order Proofs' and 'The Individuation of Events'

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5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 1. Overview of Logic

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Logic is based on transitions between sentences [Prawitz]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / a. Logical connectives

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Natural deduction introduction rules may represent 'definitions' of logical connectives [Prawitz]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 2. Domain of Quantification

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Davidson controversially proposed to quantify over events [Davidson, by Engelbretsen]

5. Theory of Logic / H. Proof Systems / 4. Natural Deduction

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In natural deduction, inferences are atomic steps involving just one logical constant [Prawitz]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / b. Events as primitive

9843	You can't identify events by causes and effects, as the event needs to be known first [Dummett on Davidson]

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Events can only be individuated causally [Davidson, by Schaffer,J]

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We need events for action statements, causal statements, explanation, mind-and-body, and adverbs [Davidson, by Bourne]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events

8278	The claim that events are individuated by their causal relations to other events is circular [Lowe on Davidson]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity

3016	Even the gods cannot strive against necessity [Pittacus, by Diog. Laertius]