Lexicon of Arguments

 

VII (d) 77
Introduction/Language/General Term/Quine: the use of general terms has probably arisen in the course of language development because similar stimuli cause similar reactions.
Language would be impossible without general terms.
To understand them, you have to recognize the additional operator "class of" or "-ness" at their introduction. Failure to do so was probably the reason for assuming abstract entities.
>General Terms/Quine.
IX 13
Introduction: It would be a mistake, e.g. to write "* (Fx)" for "x = 1 u ∃yFy" , because it would be wrong to conclude "* (F0) * (F1)" from "F0 F1" - so we have to distrust our definition 2.1 which has "Fx" in the definiendum, but does not have it in the definiens.
XI 39
Name/Logic/Quine/Lauener: the logical status of proper names does not depend on the type of introduction, but only on the relation to the other expressions.
>Proper Names/Quine.