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All the ideas for 'Mind and Its Place in Nature', 'Quantification and Descriptions' and 'fragments/reports'

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7 ideas

2. Reason / D. Definition / 7. Contextual Definition

18776

Contextual definitions eliminate descriptions from contexts [Linsky,B]

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 2. Descriptions / b. Definite descriptions

18774

Definite descriptions, unlike proper names, have a logical structure [Linsky,B]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being

12270

Being is one [Melissus, by Aristotle]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 6. Inference in Perception

7628	Broad rejects the inferential component of the representative theory [Broad, by Maund]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

3059	There is no real motion, only the appearance of it [Melissus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 1. Void

5100	The void is not required for change, because a plenum can alter in quality [Aristotle on Melissus]

27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 2. Eternal Universe

456	Nothing could come out of nothing [Melissus]