Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Myth of the Aesthetic Attitude', 'How there could be a private language' and 'The Individuation of Events'

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7 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 2. Domain of Quantification

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Davidson controversially proposed to quantify over events [Davidson, by Engelbretsen]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / b. Events as primitive

9843	You can't identify events by causes and effects, as the event needs to be known first [Dummett on Davidson]

14602

Events can only be individuated causally [Davidson, by Schaffer,J]

14004

We need events for action statements, causal statements, explanation, mind-and-body, and adverbs [Davidson, by Bourne]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events

8278	The claim that events are individuated by their causal relations to other events is circular [Lowe on Davidson]

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 4. Language of Thought

2604	We must have expressive power BEFORE we learn language [Fodor]

21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 2. Aesthetic Attitude

20443

The aesthetic attitude is nothing more than paying close attention [Dickie, by Giovannelli]