Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Truly Understood', 'The Modularity of Mind' and 'The Myth of the Given'

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8 ideas

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / a. Foundationalism
8790 The 'doctrine of the given' is correct; some beliefs or statements are self-justifying [Chisholm]
18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 6. Judgement / a. Nature of Judgement
12608 Concepts are distinguished by roles in judgement, and are thus tied to rationality [Peacocke]
18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 3. Modularity of Mind
22186 Mental modules are specialised, automatic, and isolated [Fodor, by Okasha]
18. Thought / D. Concepts / 3. Ontology of Concepts / c. Fregean concepts
12605 A sense is individuated by the conditions for reference [Peacocke]
12607 Fregean concepts have their essence fixed by reference-conditions [Peacocke]
18. Thought / D. Concepts / 4. Structure of Concepts / a. Conceptual structure
12609 Concepts have distinctive reasons and norms [Peacocke]
18. Thought / D. Concepts / 4. Structure of Concepts / b. Analysis of concepts
12604 Any explanation of a concept must involve reference and truth [Peacocke]
19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 4. Compositionality
12610 Encountering novel sentences shows conclusively that meaning must be compositional [Peacocke]