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All the ideas for 'Semantics for Natural Languages', 'Letters to Oldenburg' and 'The Blue and Brown Notebooks'

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7 ideas

16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 3. Reference of 'I'
22419 'I' is a subject in 'I am in pain' and an object in 'I am bleeding' [Wittgenstein, by McGinn]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions
15160 Davidson rejected ordinary meaning, and just used truth and reference instead [Davidson, by Soames]
14612 Davidson aimed to show that language is structured by first-order logic [Davidson, by Smart]
19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / b. Indeterminate translation
6318 The doctrine of indeterminacy of translation seems implied by the later Wittgenstein [Wittgenstein, by Quine]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism
4867 Whether nature is beautiful or orderly is entirely in relation to human imagination [Spinoza]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 3. Divine Perfections
4866 God is a being with infinite attributes, each of them infinite or perfect [Spinoza]
28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / e. Miracles
4868 Trying to prove God's existence through miracles is proving the obscure by the more obscure [Spinoza]