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All the ideas for 'What is so bad about Contradictions?', 'Two Problems of Epistemology' and 'Public Text and Common Reader'

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7 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 3. Non-Contradiction

9123	Someone standing in a doorway seems to be both in and not-in the room [Priest,G, by Sorensen]

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 6. Falsification

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Particulars can be verified or falsified, but general statements can only be falsified (conclusively) [Popper]

21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 3. Taste

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Literary meaning emerges in comparisons, and tradition shows which comparisons are relevant [Scruton]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 5. Art as Language

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In literature, word replacement changes literary meaning [Scruton]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 1. Artistic Intentions

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Without intentions we can't perceive sculpture, but that is not the whole story [Scruton]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 3. Artistic Representation

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In aesthetic interest, even what is true is treated as though it were not [Scruton]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 5. Objectivism in Art

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We can be objective about conventions, but love of art is needed to understand its traditions [Scruton]