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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Reply to First Objections' and 'Presupposition and Conversational Implicature'

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7 ideas

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

10990

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

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 2. Unconscious Mind

16634

I can't be unaware of anything which is in me [Descartes]

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

10991

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

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 5. Existence-Essence

3635	Essence must be known before we discuss existence [Descartes]

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]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / a. Cosmological Proof

3634	We can't prove a first cause from our inability to grasp infinity [Descartes]