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All the ideas for 'Propositions', 'Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action' and 'Dion and Theon: an essentialist solution'

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15 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / b. Names as descriptive

9455	Maybe proper names have the content of fixing a thing's category [Bealer]

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 2. Descriptions / b. Definite descriptions

9454	The four leading theories of definite descriptions are Frege's, Russell's, Evans's, and Prior's [Bealer]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind

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Persistence conditions cannot contradict, so there must be a 'dominant sortal' [Burke,M, by Hawley]

14753

The 'dominant' of two coinciding sortals is the one that entails the widest range of properties [Burke,M, by Sider]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / b. Unifying aggregates

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'The rock' either refers to an object, or to a collection of parts, or to some stuff [Burke,M, by Wasserman]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / b. Cat and its tail

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Tib goes out of existence when the tail is lost, because Tib was never the 'cat' [Burke,M, by Sider]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay

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Sculpting a lump of clay destroys one object, and replaces it with another one [Burke,M, by Wasserman]

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Burke says when two object coincide, one of them is destroyed in the process [Burke,M, by Hawley]

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Maybe the clay becomes a different lump when it becomes a statue [Burke,M, by Koslicki]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / d. Coincident objects

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Two entities can coincide as one, but only one of them (the dominant sortal) fixes persistence conditions [Burke,M, by Sider]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions

9453	Sentences saying the same with the same rigid designators may still express different propositions [Bealer]

9452	Propositions might be reduced to functions (worlds to truth values), or ordered sets of properties and relations [Bealer]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 2. Abstract Propositions / a. Propositions as sense

9451	Modal logic and brain science have reaffirmed traditional belief in propositions [Bealer]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / b. Intellectualism

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Moral right is linked to validity and truth, so morality is a matter of knowledge, not an expression of values [Habermas, by Finlayson]

23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 9. Contractualism

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Move from individual willing of a general law, to willing norms agreed with other people [Habermas]