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A Thematic Compilation by Avi Sion

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35. Some LC Phase Three Insights

 

1.    History of My Causation Research

I have been dreaming of systematizing causal logic since my teens, I think, when I first studied works on logic and philosophy.

My first book, Future Logic (1990), mentions the manifest modal foundations of causality and indeed the tacit causal…

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36. The Existential Import Doctrine

 

1.    Existential Import

A term is, nowadays, said to have ‘existential import’ if it is considered to have existing referents; otherwise, it is said to be ‘empty’ or a ‘null class’. For examples, ‘men’ has existential import, whereas ‘dragons’ does not. This concept is considered orig…

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Main References

 

Bacon, Francis.  Novum Organum (1620).  Trans. R. Ellis & James Spedding.  London: Routledge, 1880 (date of publ. guessed, as not given).

Curtis, Helena and N. Sue Barnes.  Invitation to Biology.  4th ed.  New York: Worth, 1985.

Dogen. Enlightenment Unfolds: The Essential Teachings…

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