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All the ideas for 'Inventing Logical Necessity', 'The Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme' and '75: Is 'Live Unknown' a Wise Precept?'

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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 12. Rejecting Truthmakers
19044 Saying truths fit experience adds nothing to truth; nothing makes sentences true [Davidson]
10. Modality / A. Necessity / 6. Logical Necessity
12189 Logical necessity involves a decision about usage, and is non-realist and non-cognitive [Wright,C, by McFetridge]
12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique
6400 Without the dualism of scheme and content, not much is left of empiricism [Davidson]
13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 6. Relativism Critique
6398 Different points of view make sense, but they must be plotted on a common background [Davidson]
15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 2. Psuche
5959 Some philosophers say the soul is light [Plutarch]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism
7320 Holism cannot give a coherent account of scientific methodology [Wright,C, by Miller,A]
19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / b. Indeterminate translation
6399 Criteria of translation give us the identity of conceptual schemes [Davidson]