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All the ideas for 'Truth and Meaning', 'Human Society in Ethics and Politics' and 'The General Theory of Employment'

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5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 1. Logical Form
7332 There is a huge range of sentences of which we do not know the logical form [Davidson]
19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 4. Compositionality
7772 Compositionality explains how long sentences work, and truth conditions are the main compositional feature [Davidson, by Lycan]
19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 5. Fregean Semantics
7327 Davidson thinks Frege lacks an account of how words create sentence-meaning [Davidson, by Miller,A]
19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 9. Indexical Semantics
7769 You can state truth-conditions for "I am sick now" by relativising it to a speaker at a time [Davidson, by Lycan]
19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / b. Indeterminate translation
6179 Should we assume translation to define truth, or the other way around? [Blackburn on Davidson]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / b. Liberal individualism
22601 Laissez-faire individualism doesn't work, especially in troublesome times [Keynes]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / b. Euthyphro question
2609 If God's decrees are good, and this is not a mere tautology, then goodness is separate from God's decrees [Russell]