Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Neutral Relations' and 'On the Nature of Moral Values'

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10 ideas

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth

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Science is sympathetic to truth as correspondence, since it depends on observation [Quine]

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations

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The 'standard' view of relations is that they hold of several objects in a given order [Fine,K]

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The 'positionalist' view of relations says the number of places is fixed, but not the order [Fine,K]

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A block on top of another contains one relation, not both 'on top of' and 'beneath' [Fine,K]

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Language imposes a direction on a road which is not really part of the road [Fine,K]

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Explain biased relations as orderings of the unbiased, or the unbiased as permutation classes of the biased? [Fine,K]

14. Science / C. Induction / 2. Aims of Induction

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More careful inductions gradually lead to the hypothetico-deductive method [Quine]

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

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

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / a. Nature of value

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Altruistic values concern other persons, and ceremonial values concern practices [Quine]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love

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Love seems to diminish with distance from oneself [Quine]