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All the ideas for 'Function and Concept', 'Molyneux's Question' and 'Miscellaneous Observations'

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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth
19574 If man sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself, by acting against his own convictions [Novalis]
3. Truth / E. Pragmatic Truth / 1. Pragmatic Truth
19571 Delusion and truth differ in their life functions [Novalis]
4. Formal Logic / A. Syllogistic Logic / 2. Syllogistic Logic
18806 Frege thought traditional categories had psychological and linguistic impurities [Frege, by Rumfitt]
5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 5. Functions in Logic
8490 First-level functions have objects as arguments; second-level functions take functions as arguments [Frege]
5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 6. Relations in Logic
8492 Relations are functions with two arguments [Frege]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / a. Early logicism
8487 Arithmetic is a development of logic, so arithmetical symbolism must expand into logical symbolism [Frege]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence
18899 Frege takes the existence of horses to be part of their concept [Frege, by Sommers]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 10. Properties as Predicates
4028 Frege allows either too few properties (as extensions) or too many (as predicates) [Mellor/Oliver on Frege]
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 3. Objects in Thought
8489 The concept 'object' is too simple for analysis; unlike a function, it is an expression with no empty place [Frege]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences
19575 Refinement of senses increasingly distinguishes individuals [Novalis]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / d. Sense-data problems
7639 The Homunculus Fallacy explains a subject perceiving objects by repeating the problem internally [Evans]
12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism
19572 Experiences tests reason, and reason tests experience [Novalis]
17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind
19573 The seat of the soul is where our inner and outer worlds interpenetrate [Novalis]
18. Thought / D. Concepts / 3. Ontology of Concepts / c. Fregean concepts
9947 Concepts are the ontological counterparts of predicative expressions [Frege, by George/Velleman]
10319 An assertion about the concept 'horse' must indirectly speak of an object [Frege, by Hale]
8488 A concept is a function whose value is always a truth-value [Frege]
18. Thought / D. Concepts / 4. Structure of Concepts / a. Conceptual structure
9948 Unlike objects, concepts are inherently incomplete [Frege, by George/Velleman]
18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 2. Abstracta by Selection
19577 Everything is a chaotic unity, then we abstract, then we reunify the world into a free alliance [Novalis]
19. Language / B. Reference / 5. Speaker's Reference
4972 I may regard a thought about Phosphorus as true, and the same thought about Hesperus as false [Frege]
21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 5. Natural Beauty
19578 Only self-illuminated perfect individuals are beautiful [Novalis]
28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / b. Ontological Proof critique
8491 The Ontological Argument fallaciously treats existence as a first-level concept [Frege]
29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / a. Religious Belief
19576 Religion needs an intermediary, because none of us can connect directly to a godhead [Novalis]