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All the ideas for 'Dialektik', 'A world of truthmakers?' and 'Treatise 4: The Moral Sense'

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 1. On Reason
6253 Reason is our power of finding out true propositions [Hutcheson]
3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 6. Making Negative Truths
15549 If it were true that nothing at all existed, would that have a truthmaker? [Lewis]
19. Language / E. Analyticity / 4. Analytic/Synthetic Critique
20959 Concepts are only analytic once the predicate is absorbed into the subject [Schleiermacher]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism
6256 Can't the moral sense make mistakes, as the other senses do? [Hutcheson]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / a. Nature of happiness
6252 Happiness is a pleasant sensation, or continued state of such sensations [Hutcheson]
23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 1. Deontology
6257 You can't form moral rules without an end, which needs feelings and a moral sense [Hutcheson]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / a. Divine morality
6254 We are asked to follow God's ends because he is our benefactor, but why must we do that? [Hutcheson]
6255 Why may God not have a superior moral sense very similar to ours? [Hutcheson]