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All the ideas for 'Law and Causality', 'Syntactic Structure' and 'Reality and Representation'

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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]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / d. Non-truthfunction conditionals

10993

Ramsey's Test: believe the consequent if you believe the antecedent [Ramsey, by Read]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / e. Supposition conditionals

14279

Asking 'If p, will q?' when p is uncertain, then first add p hypothetically to your knowledge [Ramsey]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs

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Belief truth-conditions are normal circumstances where the belief is supposed to occur [Papineau]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 8. Ramsey Sentences

6894	Mental terms can be replaced in a sentence by a variable and an existential quantifier [Ramsey]

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 / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / b. Best system theory

9418	All knowledge needs systematizing, and the axioms would be the laws of nature [Ramsey]

9420	Causal laws result from the simplest axioms of a complete deductive system [Ramsey]