Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Presupposition and Conversational Implicature', 'Rationality and Goodness' and 'Martin Heidegger in conversation'

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4 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / h. Dasein (being human)

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I say the manifestation of Being needs humans, and humans only exist as reflected in Being [Heidegger]

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

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

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

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

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / d. Virtue theory critique

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Good and bad are a matter of actions, not of internal dispositions [Foot]