More Precisely

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Exercises for Chapter 1 Sets

These exercises cover the material in Chapter 1 of More Precisely.

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Supplementary Material for Chapter 2 Relations

This file adds to the material in Chapter 2 of More Precisely. The file gives examples of functions associated with the genetic code, fuzzy sets, and Quine’s Democritean worlds.

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Exercises for Chapter 2 Relations

This file contains exercises for Chapter 2 of More Precisely.

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Supplementary Material for Chapter 4 Semantics

This file adds to the material in Chapter 4 of More Precisely. The file focuses on semantics for tensed statements using temporal counterpart theory. It develops an explicit model of a universe with times and gives explicit truth-conditions for tensed statements both de re and de dicto relative to that model.

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Supplementary Material for Chapter 7 Infinity

This file adds to the material in Chapter 7 of More Precisely. The file gives several examples of recursive definitions that converge to limits.

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Exercises for Chapters 7 and 8 Infinity

This file contains exercises for Chapters 7 and 8 of More Precisely. The exercises cover both countable and uncountable infinities.

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Supplementary Material for Chapter 8 Bigger Infinities

This file adds to the material in Chapter 8 of More Precisely. The file deals with combinatorial hierarchies in metaphysics. It discusses 7 types of combinatorial hierarchies, including van Inwagen’s vitalist hierarchy, Goodman’s nominalist hierarchy, Maddy’s pluralist hierarchy, the ZFCU hierarchy, Lewis’s modal realist hierarchy, Quine’s hierarchy of pure sets, and the Pythagorean hierarchy.

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