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All the ideas for 'Confessions of a Philosopher', 'Zettel' and 'Proper Names'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy
2626 A philosopher is outside any community of ideas [Wittgenstein]
5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / b. Names as descriptive
7746 We don't normally think of names as having senses (e.g. we don't give definitions of them) [Searle]
7747 How can a proper name be correlated with its object if it hasn't got a sense? [Searle]
7748 'Aristotle' means more than just 'an object that was christened "Aristotle"' [Searle]
7749 Reference for proper names presupposes a set of uniquely referring descriptions [Searle]
7750 Proper names are logically connected with their characteristics, in a loose way [Searle]
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]
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 2. Causal Justification
3790 Causes of beliefs are irrelevant to their contents [Wittgenstein]
16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 3. Limits of Introspection
3102 Why don't we experience or remember going to sleep at night? [Magee]