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All the ideas for 'Changes in Events and Changes in Things', 'Tarski on Truth and Logical Consequence' and 'Zettel'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy
2626 A philosopher is outside any community of ideas [Wittgenstein]
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]
5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 6. Paradoxes in Language / a. The Liar paradox
6569 'This sentence is false' sends us in a looping search for its proposition [Wittgenstein, by Fogelin]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / b. Types of fact
15201 That Queen Anne is dead is a 'general fact', not a fact about Queen Anne [Prior,AN]
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 2. Causal Justification
3790 Causes of beliefs are irrelevant to their contents [Wittgenstein]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / e. Tensed (A) series
22899 'Thank goodness that's over' is not like 'thank goodness that happened on Friday' [Prior,AN]