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All the ideas for 'Truth and Meaning', 'On the Genealogy of Ethics' and 'Why Propositions Aren't Truth-Supporting Circumstance'

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10 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 2. Ancient Thought

7500	Early Greeks cared about city and companions; later Greeks concentrated on the self [Foucault]

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 / 2. Semantics

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Semantics as theory of meaning and semantics as truth-based logical consequence are very different [Soames]

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 / 6. Truth-Conditions Semantics

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Semantic content is a proposition made of sentence constituents (not some set of circumstances) [Soames]

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]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / h. Fine deeds

7501	Why couldn't a person's life become a work of art? [Foucault]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / b. Types of pleasure

7498	Greeks and early Christians were much more concerned about food than about sex [Foucault]