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16Abstract IndividualsDialogue 5 (2): 217-231. 1966.The title of this paper may seem to involve a contradiction: my purpose is to show that it does not.Individuals fall into two categories; those which depend for their existence upon the existence of other individuals, and those which do not. In the second category are found such things as shoes, ships, cabbages, kings, and discrete bits of sealing wax. These may be calledindividual substances, and the way in which the existence of a cabbage depends upon water and earth, or in which Descartes say…Read more
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14Review: Mordchaj Wajsberg, Stanislaw J. Surma, Logical Works (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 48 (3): 873-874. 1983.
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13Atwell R. Turquette. A method for constructing implication logics. Zeitschrift für mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik, vol. 12 , pp. 267–278 (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 33 (2): 308-309. 1968.
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13Every functionally complete $m$-valued logic has a Post-complete axiomatizationNotre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 11 (1): 106-106. 1970.
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12Jean-Louis Gardies. La logique du temps. Collection SUP. Presses Universitaires de France, Paris1975, 160 pp (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 42 (3): 430-432. 1977.
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11The Paradox of ForeknowledgeDialogue 6 (2): 229-230. 1967.What fourth dimension of a four-dimensional space-time continuum. I propose to develop some of the commonly held implications of this view, and to show that they involve a contradiction. Hence whatever time is, it cannot be the thing corresponding to this particular theory.
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10The Consistency of Arithmetic: And Other EssaysOxford University Press USA. 2014.This volume contains six new and fifteen previously published essays -- plus a new introduction -- by Storrs McCall. Some of the essays were written in collaboration with E. J. Lowe of Durham University. The essays discuss controversial topics in logic, action theory, determinism and indeterminism, and the nature of human choice and decision. Some construct a modern up-to-date version of Aristotle's bouleusis, practical deliberation. This process of practical deliberation is shown to be indeterm…Read more
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10Review: Richard Sharvy, Eugene Freeman, Wilfrid Sellars, Things (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 40 (1): 100-101. 1975.
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6The Determinists Have Run Out of Luck---For a Good ReasonPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 77 (3): 745-748. 2008.
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3Review: A. N. Prior, Eugene Freeman, Wilfrid Sellars, Recent Advances in Tense Logic (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 40 (1): 99-99. 1975.
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Review: Atwell R. Turquette, A Method for Constructing Implication Logics (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 33 (2): 308-309. 1968.
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