Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Kurt Vonnegut, M. Tullius Cicero and David Lewis

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19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

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Oratory and philosophy are closely allied; orators borrow from philosophy, and ornament it [Cicero]

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Eloquence educates, exhorts, comforts, distracts and unites us, and raises us from savagery [Cicero]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / c. Principle of charity

8614	A sophisticated principle of charity sometimes imputes error as well as truth [Lewis]

8615	We need natural properties in order to motivate the principle of charity [Lewis]

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Basic to pragmatics is taking a message in a way that makes sense of it [Lewis]