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All the ideas for 'Calculus Ratiocinator', 'On Mental Entities' and 'Semantics for Natural Languages'

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11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / a. Idealism

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A whole is just its parts, but there are no smallest parts, so only minds and perceptions exist [Leibniz]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / d. Sense-data problems

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Sense-data are dubious abstractions, with none of the plausibility of tables [Quine]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 4. Pro-Empiricism

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Empiricism says evidence rests on the senses, but that insight is derived from science [Quine]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions

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Davidson rejected ordinary meaning, and just used truth and reference instead [Davidson, by Soames]

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Davidson aimed to show that language is structured by first-order logic [Davidson, by Smart]