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Ideas for 'The Elm and the Expert', 'Reasoning and the Logic of Things' and 'Killing in War'

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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 2. Propositional Attitudes
2440 Propositional attitudes are propositions presented in a certain way [Fodor]
18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 5. Rationality / a. Rationality
19248 Reasoning involves observation, experiment, and habituation [Peirce]
2450 Rationality has mental properties - autonomy, productivity, experiment [Fodor]
18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 5. Rationality / b. Human rationality
19221 Everybody overrates their own reasoning, so it is clearly superficial [Peirce]
18. Thought / C. Content / 5. Twin Earth
2437 XYZ (Twin Earth 'water') is an impossibility [Fodor]
18. Thought / C. Content / 6. Broad Content
2441 Truth conditions require a broad concept of content [Fodor]
18. Thought / C. Content / 7. Narrow Content
3114 Concepts aren't linked to stuff; they are what is caused by stuff [Fodor]
18. Thought / C. Content / 10. Causal Semantics
2452 Knowing the cause of a thought is almost knowing its content [Fodor]
18. Thought / C. Content / 12. Informational Semantics
2432 Is content basically information, fixed externally? [Fodor]
18. Thought / D. Concepts / 3. Ontology of Concepts / b. Concepts as abilities
2438 In the information view, concepts are potentials for making distinctions [Fodor]