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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Identity in Substances and True Propositions' and 'Russell's Ontological Development'

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6 ideas

2. Reason / D. Definition / 12. Paraphrase

21699

Russell offered a paraphrase of definite description, to avoid the commitment to objects [Quine]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / c. Monads

19405

Substances are in harmony, because they each express the one reality in themselves [Leibniz]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / a. Sentence meaning

21700

Taking sentences as the unit of meaning makes useful paraphrasing possible [Quine]

21701

Knowing a word is knowing the meanings of sentences which contain it [Quine]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]