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All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Virtues of Authenticity'', 'Confessions of a Philosopher' and 'Semantic Necessity'

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5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 8. Theories in Logic

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Theories in logic are sentences closed under consequence, but in truth discussions theories have axioms [Fine,K]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / a. Platonic Forms

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Forms are not a theory of universals, but an attempt to explain how predication is possible [Nehamas]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking

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Only Tallness really is tall, and other inferior tall things merely participate in the tallness [Nehamas]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity

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The role of semantic necessity in semantics is like metaphysical necessity in metaphysics [Fine,K, by Hale/Hoffmann,A]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

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'Episteme' is better translated as 'understanding' than as 'knowledge' [Nehamas]

16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 3. Limits of Introspection

3102	Why don't we experience or remember going to sleep at night? [Magee]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 2. Semantics

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Semantics is either an assignment of semantic values, or a theory of truth [Fine,K]

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Semantics is a body of semantic requirements, not semantic truths or assigned values [Fine,K]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 7. Extensional Semantics

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Referential semantics (unlike Fregeanism) allows objects themselves in to semantic requirements [Fine,K]

19. Language / E. Analyticity / 4. Analytic/Synthetic Critique

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The Quinean doubt: are semantics and facts separate, and do analytic sentences have no factual part? [Fine,K]