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All the ideas for 'Letters to Jourdain', 'The Quest for Certainty' and 'Sense and Sensibilia'

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6 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / a. Names

8447	In 'Etna is higher than Vesuvius' the whole of Etna, including all the lava, can't be the reference [Frege]

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

8448	Any object can have many different names, each with a distinct sense [Frege]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / a. Problem of vagueness

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Austin revealed many meanings for 'vague': rough, ambiguous, general, incomplete... [Austin,JL, by Williamson]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty

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We want certainty in order achieve secure results for action [Dewey]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / a. Sentence meaning

8446	We understand new propositions by constructing their sense from the words [Frege]

19. Language / B. Reference / 4. Descriptive Reference / a. Sense and reference

8449	Senses can't be subjective, because propositions would be private, and disagreement impossible [Frege]