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I owe much to my thesis director Nuel Belnap, but I wonder if I can blame him for my recent idealist tendencies. The novelist Colin Wilson (1967) has a theory of ideas as infectious agents, much like viruses and needing hosts. It is interesting to speculate how the idealist infection was transmitted from Blanshard to Anderson and Belnap at Yale, and from them to me as their graduate student at Pittsburgh. Perhaps rather than being an infectious disease it is a hereditary one, linked in some complicated way with the intellectual genes for relevance logic, Platonism, and logical humor.
I will not repeat here all of the acknowledgements made in Dunn (1987, 1990), but many of those same people continue to have an effect on the present paper. Also I want to thank my new colleague Anil Gupta for some very helpful conversations.
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Dunn, J.M. (1990). Relevant Predication 3: Essential Properties. In: Dunn, J.M., Gupta, A. (eds) Truth or Consequences. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0681-5_6
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