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All the ideas for 'Letters to Jourdain', 'On Providence' and 'Consilience'

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8 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]

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]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / a. Nature of happiness

13550

To be always happy is to lack knowledge of one half of nature [Seneca]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 4. External Goods / a. External goods

13549

Nothing bad can happen to a good man [Seneca]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / c. A unified people

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The biology of societies: kin selection, parenting, mating; status, territory, contracts [Wilson,EO]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / c. Forces

13548

The ocean changes in volume in proportion to the attraction of the moon [Seneca]