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All the ideas for 'Survival and Identity, with postscript', 'The Language of Thought' and 'There is No A Priori (and reply)'

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5 ideas

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 4. De re / De dicto modality

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De re modal predicates are ambiguous [Lewis, by Rudder Baker]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities

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How could the mind have a link to the necessary character of reality? [Devitt]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 11. Denying the A Priori

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Some knowledge must be empirical; naturalism implies that all knowledge is like that [Devitt]

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 4. Language of Thought

8090	Since the language of thought is the same for all, it must be something like logical form [Fodor, by Devlin]

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / c. Nativist concepts

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If concept-learning is hypothesis-testing, that needs innate concepts to get started [Fodor, by Margolis/Laurence]