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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Syntactic Structure' and 'Counterfactual Dependence and Time's Arrow'

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined

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Even pointing a finger should only be done for a reason [Epictetus]

2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 8. Category Mistake / c. Category mistake as semantic

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Chomsky established the view that category mistakes are well-formed but meaningless [Chomsky, by Magidor]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 1. Syntax

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Syntax is independent of semantics; sentences can be well formed but meaningless [Chomsky, by Magidor]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 5. Direction of causation

8433	There are few traces of an event before it happens, but many afterwards [Lewis, by Horwich]