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All the ideas for 'Issues of Pragmaticism', 'Farewell to Reality: fairytale physics' and 'What is innate and why'

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18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 4. Language of Thought

2605	If everything uses mentalese, ALL concepts must be innate! [Putnam]

2606	No machine language can express generalisations [Putnam]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning

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The meaning or purport of a symbol is all the rational conduct it would lead to [Peirce]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / b. Fields

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Fields can be 'scalar', or 'vector', or 'tensor', or 'spinor' [Baggott]

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A 'field' is a property with a magnitude, distributed across all of space and time [Baggott]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / b. Standard model

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The current standard model requires 61 particles [Baggott]