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All the ideas for 'Modern Moral Philosophy', 'Merely Possible Propositions' and 'Introduction to Aesthetics'

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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 4. Impossible objects

14617

Predicates can't apply to what doesn't exist [Stalnaker]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 3. Concrete Propositions

14616

A 'Russellian proposition' is an ordered sequence of individual, properties and relations [Stalnaker]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 6. Art as Institution

8114	The institutional theory says only a competent expert can decree something to be an art work [Dickie, by Gardner]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character

8070	It would be better to point to failings of character, than to moral wrongness of actions [Anscombe]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 1. Deontology

8065	'Ought' and 'right' are survivals from earlier ethics, and should be jettisoned [Anscombe]

8069	Between Aristotle and us, a Judaeo-Christian legal conception of ethics was developed [Anscombe]