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Ideas for 'Scientific Explanation', 'The Elm and the Expert' and 'Frege Philosophy of Language (2nd ed)'

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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
2450 Rationality has mental properties - autonomy, productivity, experiment [Fodor]
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]
18. Thought / D. Concepts / 3. Ontology of Concepts / c. Fregean concepts
19168 Concepts only have a 'functional character', because they map to truth values, not objects [Dummett, by Davidson]
18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 7. Abstracta by Equivalence
10549 Since abstract objects cannot be picked out, we must rely on identity statements [Dummett]