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All the ideas for 'Are Persons Bodies?', 'Introduction to 'New Pragmatists'' and 'Why Propositions Aren't Truth-Supporting Circumstance'

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 5. Objectivity

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Modern pragmatism sees objectivity as possible, despite its gradual evolution [Misak]

16. Persons / A. Concept of a Person / 1. Existence of Persons

3238	'Dead person' isn't a contradiction, so 'person' is somewhat vague [Williams,B]

3239	You can only really love a person as a token, not as a type [Williams,B]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 2. Semantics

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Semantics as theory of meaning and semantics as truth-based logical consequence are very different [Soames]

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

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Semantic content is a proposition made of sentence constituents (not some set of circumstances) [Soames]