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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Forget the 'correspondence theory of truth'' and 'On the analysis of moral judgements'

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11 ideas

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 5. Truth Bearers

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To be true a sentence must express a proposition, and not be ambiguous or vague or just expressive [Lewis]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 2. Truthmaker Relation

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Truthmakers are about existential grounding, not about truth [Lewis]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 11. Truthmaking and Correspondence

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Truthmaker is correspondence, but without the requirement to be one-to-one [Lewis]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

468	Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / b. Defining ethics

6968	Some people think there are ethical facts, but of a 'queer' sort [Ayer]

6972	A right attitude is just an attitude one is prepared to stand by [Ayer]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory

6973	Moral theories are all meta-ethical, and are neutral as regards actual conduct [Ayer]

6974	Moral judgements cannot be the logical consequence of a moral philosophy [Ayer]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism

6971	I would describe intuitions of good as feelings of approval [Ayer]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism

6969	Approval of historical or fictional murders gives us leave to imitate them [Ayer]

6970	Moral judgements are not expressions, but are elements in a behaviour pattern [Ayer]