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All the ideas for 'Demonstratives', 'Prcis of 'Ruling Passions'' and 'Intro to Classical Chinese Philosophy'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 2. Ancient Thought

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The Dao (Way) first means the road, and comes to mean the right way to live [Norden]

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 3. Hermeneutics

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The hermeneutic circle is either within the text, or between text and biased reader [Norden]

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Heremeneutics is either 'faith' (examining truth) or 'suspicion' (looking for hidden motives) [Norden]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 10. Two-Dimensional Semantics

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Indexicals have a 'character' (the standing meaning), and a 'content' (truth-conditions for one context) [Kaplan, by Macià/Garcia-Carpentiro]

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'Content' gives the standard modal profile, and 'character' gives rules for a context [Kaplan, by Schroeter]

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

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Some philosophers always want more from morality; for others, nature is enough [Blackburn]