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All the ideas for 'works', 'Pragmatism in Retrospect' and 'Moral Thinking: Its Levels,Method and Point'

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3. Truth / E. Pragmatic Truth / 1. Pragmatic Truth

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Peirce's theory offers anti-realist verificationism, but surely how things are is independent of us? [Horsten on Peirce]

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Independent truth (if there is any) is the ultimate result of sufficient enquiry [Peirce]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 2. Domain of Quantification

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De Morgan introduced a 'universe of discourse', to replace Boole's universe of 'all things' [De Morgan, by Walicki]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 3. Pragmatism

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Pragmatism is a way of establishing meanings, not a theory of metaphysics or a set of truths [Peirce]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / i. Prescriptivism

4125	Hare says I acquire an agglomeration of preferences by role-reversal, leading to utilitarianism [Hare, by Williams,B]

4126	If we have to want the preferences of the many, we have to abandon our own deeply-held views [Williams,B on Hare]

4127	If morality is to be built on identification with the preferences of others, I must agree with their errors [Williams,B on Hare]

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A judgement is presciptive if we expect it to be acted on [Hare]

23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 8. Contract Strategies

4360	By far the easiest way of seeming upright is to be upright [Hare]