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All the ideas for 'Ethical Studies', 'The Meaning of the Word' and 'On the Nature of Moral Values'

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7 ideas

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 2. Defining Truth

6710	You can only define a statement that something is 'true' by referring to its functional possibilities [James]

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth

21750

Science is sympathetic to truth as correspondence, since it depends on observation [Quine]

3. Truth / E. Pragmatic Truth / 1. Pragmatic Truth

22305

If the hypothesis of God is widely successful, it is true [James]

14. Science / C. Induction / 2. Aims of Induction

21748

More careful inductions gradually lead to the hypothetico-deductive method [Quine]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / a. Nature of value

21749

Altruistic values concern other persons, and ceremonial values concern practices [Quine]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love

21751

Love seems to diminish with distance from oneself [Quine]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness

5655	Happiness is not satisfaction of desires, but fulfilment of values [Bradley, by Scruton]