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All the ideas for 'The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge', 'Brandom on Social Practices and Representations' and 'Is There a Marxist Doctrine?'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy

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If we can't check our language against experience, philosophy is just comparing beliefs and words [Rorty]

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth

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Most people won't question an idea's truth if they depend on it [Weil]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism

8824	No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / d. Weakness of will

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Weakness of will is the inadequacy of the original impetus to carry through the action [Weil]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

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In a violent moral disagreement, it can't be that both sides are just following social morality [Weil]

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / b. Justice in war

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When war was a profession, customary morality justified any act of war [Weil]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

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The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer]