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All the ideas for 'Subjectivist's Guide to Objective Chance', 'Adverbial Theory' and 'Mr Strawson on Referring'

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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis
21552 Common speech is vague; its vocabulary and syntax must be modified, for precision [Russell]
2. Reason / D. Definition / 11. Ostensive Definition
21551 Empirical words need ostensive definition, which makes them egocentric [Russell]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / b. Nature of sense-data
2713 Are sense-data independent, with identity, substance and location? [Tye]
19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 9. Indexical Semantics
21550 Science reduces indexicals to a minimum, but they can never be eliminated from empirical matters [Russell]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / b. Best system theory
9425 Lewis later proposed the axioms at the intersection of the best theories (which may be few) [Mumford on Lewis]