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All the ideas for 'The Sign of Four', 'The Blue and Brown Notebooks' and 'Semantics for Propositional Attitudes'

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5 ideas

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

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

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

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

14. Science / C. Induction / 1. Induction

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If you eliminate the impossible, the truth will remain, even if it is weird [Conan Doyle]

16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 3. Reference of 'I'

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'I' is a subject in 'I am in pain' and an object in 'I am bleeding' [Wittgenstein, by McGinn]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / b. Indeterminate translation

6318	The doctrine of indeterminacy of translation seems implied by the later Wittgenstein [Wittgenstein, by Quine]