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All the ideas for 'Propositions', 'works' and 'Philosophical Remarks'

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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 / 3. Objects in Thought

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An 'object' is just what can be referred to without possible non-existence [Wittgenstein]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 2. Meaning as Mental

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Language pictures the essence of the world [Wittgenstein]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification

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You can't believe it if you can't imagine a verification for it [Wittgenstein]

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]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / d. Heresy

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Philosophers are the forefathers of heretics [Tertullian]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / e. Fideism

6610	I believe because it is absurd [Tertullian]