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All the ideas for 'Truth and Meaning', 'Ruling Passions' and 'Philosophy of Arithmetic'

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13 ideas

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]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / l. Zero

9837	0 is not a number, as it answers 'how many?' negatively [Husserl, by Dummett]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / a. Units

9576	Multiplicity in general is just one and one and one, etc. [Husserl]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / e. Counting by correlation

17444

Husserl said counting is more basic than Frege's one-one correspondence [Husserl, by Heck]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 3. Abstraction by mind

9575	Husserl identifies a positive mental act of unification, and a negative mental act for differences [Husserl, by Frege]

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 4. Structure of Concepts / b. Analysis of concepts

21214

We clarify concepts (e.g. numbers) by determining their psychological origin [Husserl, by Velarde-Mayol]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 8. Abstractionism Critique

9819	Psychologism blunders in focusing on concept-formation instead of delineating the concepts [Dummett on Husserl]

9851	Husserl wanted to keep a shadowy remnant of abstracted objects, to correlate them [Dummett on Husserl]

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]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / d. Weakness of will

23996

Akrasia is intelligible in hindsight, when we revisit our previous emotions [Blackburn]