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Peter Geach

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Peter Thomas Geach, FBA (29 March 1916 – 21 December 2013) was a British philosopher and professor of logic at the University of Leeds. [1]

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Abstractionism

Abstractionism is the theory that the mind obtains some or all of its concepts by abstracting them from concepts it already has, or from experience.

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Analytical Thomism

Analytical Thomism is a philosophical movement which promotes the interchange of ideas between the thought of Saint Thomas Aquinas (including the philosophy carried on in relation to his thinking, called 'Thomism'), and modern analytic philosophy.

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Andrzej Grzegorczyk

Andrzej Grzegorczyk (22 August 1922 – 20 March 2014) was a Polish logician, mathematician, philosopher, and ethicist noted for his work in computability, mathematical logic, and the foundations of mathematics.

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Anthony Kenny

Sir Anthony John Patrick Kenny (born 16 March 1931) is an English philosopher whose interests lie in the philosophy of mind, ancient and scholastic philosophy, the philosophy of Wittgenstein and the philosophy of religion.

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Arthur Prior

Arthur Norman Prior (4 December 1914 – 6 October 1969), usually cited as A. N. Prior, was a noted logician and philosopher.

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Ascension Parish Burial Ground

The Ascension Parish Burial Ground, formerly the burial ground for the parish of St Giles and St Peter's, is a cemetery in Cambridge, England.

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Benson Mates

Benson Mates (May 19, 1919 in Portland, Oregon – May 14, 2009 in Berkeley, California) was an American philosopher, noted for his work in logic, the history of philosophy, and skepticism.

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Bogusław Wolniewicz

Bogusław Wolniewicz (born September 22, 1927, Toruń, died August 4, 2017, Warsaw) – Polish philosopher, logician, professor of humanities, creator of situational ontology, translator and commentator of Ludwig Wittgenstein, publicist mostly affiliated with the Radio Maryja community.

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Brian Davies (philosopher)

Father Brian Evan Anthony Davies, OP (born 1951) is a British philosopher.

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C. J. F. Williams

Christopher John Fardo Williams (31 December 1930 – 25 March 1997) was a British philosopher.

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Cambridge change

A Cambridge change is a philosophical concept of change according to which an entity x has changed if and only if there is some predicate F that is true (not true) of x at a time t1 but not true (true) of x at some later time t2.

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Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club

The Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club, founded in October 1878, is a philosophy discussion group that meets weekly at Cambridge during term time.

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Categorical proposition

In logic, a categorical proposition, or categorical statement, is a proposition that asserts or denies that all or some of the members of one category (the subject term) are included in another (the predicate term).

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Columba Ryan

Columba Ryan OP (born Patrick Ryan, 13 January 1916 – 4 August 2009) was a Dominican priest who was a philosophy teacher, university chaplain, and pastor.

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Commensurability (philosophy of science)

Commensurability is a concept in the philosophy of science whereby scientific theories are commensurable if scientists can discuss them using a shared nomenclature that allows direct comparison of theories to determine which theory is more valid or useful.

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Concept and object

In the philosophy of language, the distinction between concept and object is attributable to the German philosopher Gottlob Frege.

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Deaths in December 2013

The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2013.

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Donkey sentence

Donkey sentences are sentences that contain a pronoun whose reference is clear to the reader (it is bound semantically) but whose syntactical role in the sentence poses challenges to grammarians.

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Dorothy Marie Donnelly

Dorothy Marie Donnelly (September 7, 1903 – May 2, 1994) was a poet and essayist, the author of six books of poetry and prose and numerous articles published in Europe and the US.

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Ernst Schröder

Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Ernst Schröder (25 November 1841 in Mannheim, Baden, Germany – 16 June 1902 in Karlsruhe, Germany) was a German mathematician mainly known for his work on algebraic logic.

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Expressivism

Expressivism in meta-ethics is a theory about the meaning of moral language.

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Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford

The Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford was founded in 2001.

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Frank Sibley (philosopher)

Frank Noel Sibley (28 February 1923 – 18 February 1996) was a British philosopher who worked mainly in the field of aesthetics.

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G. E. M. Anscombe

Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe (18 March 1919 – 5 January 2001), usually cited as G. E. M.

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Geach

Geach is a surname.

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Gottlob Frege

Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (8 November 1848 – 26 July 1925) was a German philosopher, logician, and mathematician.

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Howison Lectures in Philosophy

The Howison Lectures in Philosophy are a lecture series established in 1919 by friends and former students of George Howison, who served as the Mills Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Index of contemporary philosophy articles

This is a list of articles in contemporary philosophy.

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Index of philosophy articles (I–Q)

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Index of philosophy of religion articles

This is a list of articles in philosophy of religion.

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Intentionality

Intentionality is a philosophical concept and is defined by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy as "the power of minds to be about, to represent, or to stand for, things, properties and states of affairs".

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J. M. E. McTaggart

John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart, FBA, commonly John McTaggart or J. M. E. McTaggart (3 September 1866 – 18 January 1925), was an idealist metaphysician.

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John Lemmon

Edward John Lemmon (1 June 1930 – 29 July 1966) was a logician and philosopher born in Sheffield, England.

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List of Balliol College people

The following is a list of notable people associated with Balliol College, Oxford, including alumni and Masters of the college.

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List of British philosophers

This page provides a list of British philosophers; of people who either worked within Great Britain, or the country's citizens working abroad.

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List of Catholic philosophers and theologians

This is a list of philosophers and theologians whose Catholicism is important to their work.

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List of Fellows of the British Academy elected in the 1960s

The British Academy consists of world-leading scholars and researchers in the humanities and social sciences.

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List of Honorary Fellows of Balliol College, Oxford

Honorary Fellows of Balliol College, Oxford.

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List of logicians

A logician is a person whose topic of scholarly study is logic.

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List of metaphysicians

This is a list of metaphysicians, philosophers who specialize in metaphysics.

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List of philosophers (D–H)

Philosophers (and others important in the history of philosophy), listed alphabetically.

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List of philosophers born in the 20th century

Philosophers born in the 20th century (and others important in the history of philosophy) listed alphabetically.

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List of philosophers of language

This is a list of philosophers of language.

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List of University of Cambridge people

This is a list of University of Cambridge people, featuring members of the University of Cambridge segregated in accordance with their fields of achievement.

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List of University of Oxford people in academic disciplines

This is a list of people from the University of Oxford in academic disciplines.

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List of venerated couples

The following is a list of modern-day couples recognized by various Christian denominations to have lived such an exemplary holy lives in marriage and are under the process for canonization.

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Literae Humaniores

Literae Humaniores is the name given to an undergraduate course focused on Classics (Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, Latin, ancient Greek and philosophy) at the University of Oxford and some other universities.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.

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March 1916

The following events occurred in March 1916.

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March 29

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Max Black

Max Black (24 February 1909 – 27 August 1988) was a British-American philosopher, who was a leading figure in analytic philosophy in the years after World War II.

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Max Charlesworth

Maxwell John Charlesworth AO FAHA (30 December 1925 – 2 June 2014) was an Australian philosopher and public intellectual.

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Michael Dummett

Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett, FBA (27 June 192527 December 2011) was an English philosopher, described as "among the most significant British philosophers of the last century and a leading campaigner for racial tolerance and equality." He was, until 1992, Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford.

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Nathan Salmon

Nathan U. Salmon (né Nathan Salmon Ucuzoglu in 1951) is an American philosopher in the analytic tradition, specializing in metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of logic.

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Nonfirstorderizability

In formal logic, nonfirstorderizability is the inability of an expression to be adequately captured in particular theories in first-order logic.

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Omnipotence paradox

The omnipotence paradox is a family of paradoxes that arise with some understandings of the term 'omnipotent'.

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Quantificational variability effect

Quantificational variability effect (QVE) is the intuitive equivalence of certain sentences with quantificational adverbs (Q-adverbs) and sentences without these, but with quantificational determiner phrases (DP) in argument position instead.

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Robert Spaemann

Robert Spaemann (born 5 May 1927) is a German Roman Catholic philosopher.

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Salva congruitate

Salva congruitate is a Latin scholastic term in logic, which means "without becoming ill-formed", salva meaning rescue, salvation, welfare and congruitate meaning combine, coincide, agree.

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Socinianism

Socinianism is a system of Christian doctrine named for Fausto Sozzini (Latin: Faustus Socinus), which was developed among the Polish Brethren in the Minor Reformed Church of Poland during the 16th and 17th centuries and embraced by the Unitarian Church of Transylvania during the same period.

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Sortal

Sortal is a concept that has been used by some philosophers in discussing issues of identity, persistence, and change.

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Systematic theology

Systematic theology is a discipline of Christian theology that formulates an orderly, rational, and coherent account of the doctrines of the Christian faith.

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Term logic

In philosophy, term logic, also known as traditional logic, syllogistic logic or Aristotelian logic, is a loose name for an approach to logic that began with Aristotle and that was dominant until the advent of modern predicate logic in the late nineteenth century.

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The Journal of Philosophy

The Journal of Philosophy is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal on philosophy, founded in 1904 at Columbia University.

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Thomism

Thomism is the philosophical school that arose as a legacy of the work and thought of Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), philosopher, theologian, and Doctor of the Church.

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1916

Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix.

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1916 in philosophy

1916 in philosophy.

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1962 in philosophy

1962 in philosophy.

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1969 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1969.

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1980 in philosophy

1980 in philosophy.

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2013

2013 was designated as.

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2013 in philosophy

2013 in philosophy.

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2013 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 2013 in the United Kingdom.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Geach

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