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All the ideas for 'works', 'Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language' and 'Interview with Baggini and Stangroom'

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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 3. Axioms for Geometry

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Archimedes defined a straight line as the shortest distance between two points [Archimedes, by Leibniz]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 10. Rule Following

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'Quus' means the same as 'plus' if the ingredients are less than 57; otherwise it just produces 5 [Kripke]

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No rule can be fully explained [Kripke]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 10. Denial of Meanings

7305	Kripke's Wittgenstein says meaning 'vanishes into thin air' [Kripke, by Miller,A]

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If you ask what is in your mind for following the addition rule, meaning just seems to vanish [Kripke]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 6. Truth-Conditions Semantics

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Community implies assertability-conditions rather than truth-conditions semantics [Kripke, by Hanna]

19. Language / F. Communication / 4. Private Language

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The sceptical rule-following paradox is the basis of the private language argument [Kripke, by Hanna]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / e. Death

6866	It is disturbing if we become unreal when we die, but if time is unreal, then we remain real after death [Le Poidevin]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 1. Existentialism

6867	Existentialism focuses on freedom and self-making, and insertion into the world [Le Poidevin]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / d. Time series

6865	A-theory says past, present, future and flow exist; B-theory says this just reports our perspective [Le Poidevin]