Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Reality without Reference' and 'The Human Animal'

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8 ideas

16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 7. Self and Body / a. Self needs body

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Maybe our persistence conditions concern bodies, rather than persons [Olson, by Hawley]

6669	For 'animalism', I exist before I became a person, and can continue after it, so I am not a person [Olson, by Lowe]

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

6387	A minimum requirement for a theory of meaning is that it include an account of truth [Davidson]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions

6391	A theory of truth tells us how communication by language is possible [Davidson]

19. Language / B. Reference / 1. Reference theories

6388	Is reference the key place where language and the world meet? [Davidson]

6390	With a holistic approach, we can give up reference in empirical theories of language [Davidson]

19. Language / B. Reference / 4. Descriptive Reference / b. Reference by description

6389	To explain the reference of a name, you must explain its sentence-role, so reference can't be defined nonlinguistically [Davidson]

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

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