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All the ideas for 'The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics', 'The Mental Life of Some Machines' and 'Presupposition and Conversational Implicature'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics

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Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / f. Pragmatics of conditionals

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Conditionals are truth-functional, but unassertable in tricky cases? [Grice, by Read]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism

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Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW]

17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 2. Machine Functionalism

5495	Instances of pain are physical tokens, but the nature of pain is more abstract [Putnam, by Lycan]

19. Language / F. Communication / 5. Pragmatics / b. Implicature

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Key conversational maxims are 'quality' (assert truth) and 'quantity' (leave nothing out) [Grice, by Read]