Abstraction by recarving

Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 101 (3):327–338 (2001)
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Explains why Bob Hale's proposed notion of weak sense cannot explain the analyticity of Hume's principle as he claims. Argues that no other notion of the sort Hale wants could do the job either.

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Die Widerspruchsfreiheit der reinen Zahlentheorie.Gerhard Gentzen - 1936 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 1 (2):75-75.
Entailment and Deducibility.T. J. Smiley - 1959 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 59:233-254.

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