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All the ideas for 'Identity and Spatio-Temporal Continuity', 'Reality without Reference' and 'The Logical Syntax of Language'

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8 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / B. Logical Consequence / 1. Logical Consequence

13342

Carnap defined consequence by contradiction, but this is unintuitive and changes with substitution [Tarski on Carnap]

5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 4. Logic by Convention

13251

Each person is free to build their own logic, just by specifying a syntax [Carnap]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind

13128

'Ultimate sortals' cannot explain ontological categories [Westerhoff on Wiggins]

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]