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All the ideas for 'The Theory of Relativity and A Priori Knowledge', 'The Gathas (seventeen hymns)' and 'Truth and Meaning'

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9 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 1. Logical Form
7332 There is a huge range of sentences of which we do not know the logical form [Davidson]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 5. Interpretation
18278 Kant showed that our perceptions are partly constructed from our concepts [Reichenbach]
19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 4. Compositionality
7772 Compositionality explains how long sentences work, and truth conditions are the main compositional feature [Davidson, by Lycan]
19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 5. Fregean Semantics
7327 Davidson thinks Frege lacks an account of how words create sentence-meaning [Davidson, by Miller,A]
19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 9. Indexical Semantics
7769 You can state truth-conditions for "I am sick now" by relativising it to a speaker at a time [Davidson, by Lycan]
19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / b. Indeterminate translation
6179 Should we assume translation to define truth, or the other way around? [Blackburn on Davidson]
29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 1. Monotheistic Religion
7598 Zoroaster and the Hebrew prophets evolved different versions of monotheism [Zoroaster, by Armstrong,K]
29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 3. Zoroastrianism
7472 Zarathustra was the first to present a god who is an abstract concept [Zoroaster]
20672 Zoroastrianism saw the world as a battle between good evil gods [Zoroaster, by Harari]