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| 23367 | Even pointing a finger should only be done for a reason [Epictetus] |
| 6814 | Instead of prayer and charity, sinners pursue vain disputes and want their own personal scripture [Mohammed] |
| 22285 | Impredicative definitions are circular, but fine for picking out, rather than creating something [Potter] |
| 22301 | The Identity Theory says a proposition is true if it coincides with what makes it true [Potter] |
| 22324 | It has been unfortunate that externalism about truth is equated with correspondence [Potter] |
| 22279 | Frege's sign |--- meant judgements, but the modern |- turnstile means inference, with intecedents [Potter] |
| 22291 | Deductivism can't explain how the world supports unconditional conclusions [Potter] |
| 22295 | Modern logical truths are true under all interpretations of the non-logical words [Potter] |
| 22310 | The formalist defence against Gödel is to reject his metalinguistic concept of truth [Potter] |
| 22298 | Why is fictional arithmetic applicable to the real world? [Potter] |
| 22287 | If 'concrete' is the negative of 'abstract', that means desires and hallucinations are concrete [Potter] |
| 22284 | 'Greater than', which is the ancestral of 'successor', strictly orders the natural numbers [Potter] |
| 22281 | A material conditional cannot capture counterfactual reasoning [Potter] |
| 22327 | Knowledge from a drunken schoolteacher is from a reliable and unreliable process [Potter] |
| 22273 | Traditionally there are twelve categories of judgement, in groups of three [Potter] |
| 22290 | The phrase 'the concept "horse"' can't refer to a concept, because it is saturated [Potter] |
| 22283 | Compositionality should rely on the parsing tree, which may contain more than sentence components [Potter] |
| 22282 | 'Direct compositonality' says the components wholly explain a sentence meaning [Potter] |
| 22296 | Compositionality is more welcome in logic than in linguistics (which is more contextual) [Potter] |
| 6823 | Repay evil with good and your enemies will become friends (though this is hard) [Mohammed] |
| 6828 | You may break off a treaty if you fear treachery from your ally [Mohammed] |
| 6826 | Allah rewards those who are devout, sincere, patient, humble, charitable, chaste, and who fast [Mohammed] |
| 6822 | Those who avenge themselves when wronged incur no guilt [Mohammed] |
| 6833 | Punish theft in men or women by cutting off their hands [Mohammed] |
| 6825 | Do not kill except for a just cause [Mohammed] |
| 6832 | Killing a human, except as just punishment, is like killing all mankind [Mohammed] |
| 6811 | Allah is lord of creation, compassionate, merciful, king of judgement-day [Mohammed] |
| 6819 | True believers see that Allah made the night for rest and the day to give light [Mohammed] |
| 6818 | Allah cannot have begotten a son, as He is self-sufficient [Mohammed] |
| 6831 | He that kills a believer by design shall burn in Hell for ever [Mohammed] |
| 6829 | There shall be no compulsion in religion [Mohammed] |
| 6834 | Unbelievers try to interpret the ambiguous parts of the Koran, simply to create dissension [Mohammed] |
| 6817 | The Koran is certainly composed by Allah; no one could compose a chapter like it [Mohammed] |
| 6824 | Do not split into sects, exulting in separate beliefs [Mohammed] |
| 6821 | I created mankind that it might worship Me [Mohammed] |
| 6815 | Be patient with unbelievers, and leave them to the judgement of Allah [Mohammed] |
| 6827 | Make war on the unbelievers until Allah's religion reigns supreme [Mohammed] |
| 6820 | The righteous shall dwell on couches in gardens, wedded to dark-eyed houris [Mohammed] |
| 6812 | Heaven will be reclining on couches, eating fruit, attended by virgins [Mohammed] |
| 6830 | Unbelievers will have their skin repeatedly burned off in hell [Mohammed] |
| 6816 | The unbelievers shall drink boiling water [Mohammed] |