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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Tarski on Truth and Logical Consequence' and 'The Poetics'

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6 ideas

3. Truth / F. Semantic Truth / 1. Tarski's Truth / c. Meta-language for truth

19323

'Snow is white' depends on meaning; whether snow is white depends on snow [Etchemendy]

3. Truth / G. Axiomatic Truth / 1. Axiomatic Truth

19137

We can get a substantive account of Tarski's truth by adding primitive 'true' to the object language [Etchemendy]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

22518

The actual must be possible, because it occurred [Aristotle]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 8. The Arts / b. Literature

16566

Poetry is more philosophic than history, as it concerns universals, not particulars [Aristotle]

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]