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All the ideas for 'The Value of Science', 'Frege's Distinction of Sense and Reference' and 'The Emperor's New 'Knows''

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5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / b. Names as descriptive

9182	Ancient names like 'Obadiah' depend on tradition, not on where the name originated [Dummett]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / b. Invariantism

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How could 'S knows he has hands' not have a fixed content? [Bach]

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If contextualism is right, knowledge sentences are baffling out of their context [Bach]

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Sceptics aren't changing the meaning of 'know', but claiming knowing is tougher than we think [Bach]

19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / b. Causal reference

9181	The causal theory of reference can't distinguish just hearing a name from knowing its use [Dummett]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature

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The aim of science is just to create a comprehensive, elegant language to describe brute facts [Poincaré, by Harré]