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All the ideas for 'The Internalist Conception of Justification', 'Reference and Generality (3rd ed)' and 'Semantics for Propositional Attitudes'

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence

4262	If the only aim was consistent beliefs then new evidence and experiments would be irrelevant [Goldman]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / d. Counting via concepts

12154

Are 'word token' and 'word type' different sorts of countable objects, or two ways of counting? [Geach, by Perry]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment

15785

Our commitments are to an 'ontology', but also to an 'ideology', or conceptual system [Hintikka]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 6. Nihilism about Objects

8969	We should abandon absolute identity, confining it to within some category [Geach, by Hawthorne]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity

16075

Denial of absolute identity has drastic implications for logic, semantics and set theory [Wasserman on Geach]

12152

Identity is relative. One must not say things are 'the same', but 'the same A as' [Geach]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 8. Leibniz's Law

16073

Leibniz's Law is incomplete, since it includes a non-relativized identity predicate [Geach, by Wasserman]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / a. Nature of possible worlds

15786

Commitment to possible worlds is part of our ideology, not part of our ontology [Hintikka]