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  1. Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space.
  2. 'Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation' yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.
  3. The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematica…
  4. We cannot stem linguistic change, but we can drag our feet. If each of us were to defy Alexander Pope and be the last to lay the old aside,…
  5. Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes.
  6. Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.
  7. To be is to be the value of a bound variable.
  8. Nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not? This tangled doctrine might be nicknamed Plato's beard; historicall…

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