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Ideas for 'works', 'The Beautiful in Music' and 'Category Mistakes'

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 2. Logos
1575 For Aristotle logos is essentially the ability to talk rationally about questions of value [Roochnik on Aristotle]
2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 4. Aims of Reason
1589 Aristotle is the supreme optimist about the ability of logos to explain nature [Roochnik on Aristotle]
2. Reason / D. Definition / 4. Real Definition
8200 Aristotelian definitions aim to give the essential properties of the thing defined [Aristotle, by Quine]
2. Reason / D. Definition / 5. Genus and Differentia
4385 Aristotelian definition involves first stating the genus, then the differentia of the thing [Aristotle, by Urmson]
2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 8. Category Mistake / a. Category mistakes
18019 People have dreams which involve category mistakes [Magidor]
17998 Category mistakes are either syntactic, semantic, or pragmatic [Magidor]
2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 8. Category Mistake / b. Category mistake as syntactic
18011 Category mistakes seem to be universal across languages [Magidor]
18012 Category mistakes as syntactic needs a huge number of fine-grained rules [Magidor]
18013 Embedded (in 'he said that…') category mistakes show syntax isn't the problem [Magidor]
2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 8. Category Mistake / c. Category mistake as semantic
18021 Category mistakes are meaningful, because metaphors are meaningful category mistakes [Magidor]
18015 The normal compositional view makes category mistakes meaningful [Magidor]
18017 If a category mistake is synonymous across two languages, that implies it is meaningful [Magidor]
18031 If a category mistake has unimaginable truth-conditions, then it seems to be meaningless [Magidor]
18016 Two good sentences should combine to make a good sentence, but that might be absurd [Magidor]
18030 A good explanation of why category mistakes sound wrong is that they are meaningless [Magidor]
18032 Category mistakes are neither verifiable nor analytic, so verificationism says they are meaningless [Magidor]
18034 Category mistakes play no role in mental life, so conceptual role semantics makes them meaningless [Magidor]
18037 Maybe when you say 'two is green', the predicate somehow fails to apply? [Magidor]
18039 If category mistakes aren't syntax failure or meaningless, maybe they just lack a truth-value? [Magidor]
2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 8. Category Mistake / d. Category mistake as pragmatic
18058 Maybe the presuppositions of category mistakes are the abilities of things? [Magidor]
18041 Category mistakes suffer from pragmatic presupposition failure (which is not mere triviality) [Magidor]
18056 Category mistakes because of presuppositions still have a truth value (usually 'false') [Magidor]
18055 In 'two is green', 'green' has a presupposition of being coloured [Magidor]
18057 'Numbers are coloured and the number two is green' seems to be acceptable [Magidor]
2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 8. Category Mistake / e. Category mistake as ontological
18059 The presuppositions in category mistakes reveal nothing about ontology [Magidor]