A topic within Metaphysics, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Argues that the categories of thought generate one another by their own contradictions, so logic is not a set of rules applied to content but the self-development of what there is.
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A theory is committed only to the entities its bound variables must range over to make its sentences true, giving a test for what a theory says exists that does not depend on how its words sound.
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