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All the ideas for 'Presupposition and Conversational Implicature', 'True to the Facts' and 'Political Liberalism'

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5 ideas

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 5. Truth Bearers

8188	Davidson takes truth to attach to individual sentences [Davidson, by Dummett]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / f. Pragmatics of conditionals

10990

Conditionals are truth-functional, but unassertable in tricky cases? [Grice, by Read]

19. Language / F. Communication / 5. Pragmatics / b. Implicature

10991

Key conversational maxims are 'quality' (assert truth) and 'quantity' (leave nothing out) [Grice, by Read]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 3. Universalisability

21051

Check your rationality by thinking of your opinion pronounced by the supreme court [Rawls]

24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 2. State Legitimacy / c. Social contract

21119

Power is only legitimate if it is reasonable for free equal citizens to endorse the constitution [Rawls]