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All the ideas for 'Criterion of Validity in Reasoning', 'Truth' and 'Reply to Second Objections'

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9 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 4. Aims of Reason
14779 I reason in order to avoid disappointment and surprise [Peirce]
3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 2. Correspondence to Facts
10842 The fact which is stated by a true sentence is not something in the world [Strawson,P]
10843 Facts aren't exactly true statements, but they are what those statements say [Strawson,P]
3. Truth / F. Semantic Truth / 1. Tarski's Truth / a. Tarski's truth definition
10844 The statement that it is raining perfectly fits the fact that it is raining [Strawson,P]
3. Truth / F. Semantic Truth / 2. Semantic Truth
10841 The word 'true' always refers to a possible statement [Strawson,P]
3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 1. Redundant Truth
14777 That a judgement is true and that we judge it true are quite different things [Peirce]
5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 3. Value of Logic
14780 Only study logic if you think your own reasoning is deficient [Peirce]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / a. Facts
14778 Facts are hard unmoved things, unaffected by what people may think of them [Peirce]
11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 4. The Cogito
3622 The Cogito is not a syllogism but a self-evident intuition [Descartes]