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All the ideas for 'The Nature of Thought', 'Many, but almost one' and 'works'

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7 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence

2764	Full coherence might involve consistency and mutual entailment of all propositions [Blanshard, by Dancy,J]

3. Truth / D. Coherence Truth / 1. Coherence Truth

19080

Coherence tests for truth without implying correspondence, so truth is not correspondence [Blanshard, by Young,JO]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / d. Vagueness as linguistic

15538

Semantic indecision explains vagueness (if we have precisifications to be undecided about) [Lewis]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / b. Cat and its tail

15537

If cats are vague, we deny that the many cats are one, or deny that the one cat is many [Lewis]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / e. Vague objects

15536

We have one cloud, but many possible boundaries and aggregates for it [Lewis]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / a. Parts of objects

8249	Class membership is not transitive, unlike being part of a part of the whole [Lesniewski, by George/Van Evra]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / c. Principle of charity

15539

Basic to pragmatics is taking a message in a way that makes sense of it [Lewis]