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All the ideas for 'works', 'Events and Semantic Architecture' and 'Against the Logicians (two books)'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis

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Ordinary speech is not exact about what is true; we say we are digging a well before the well exists [Sext.Empiricus]

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 1. Aims of Science

6782	Realism is the only philosophy of science that doesn't make the success of science a miracle [Putnam]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism

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Putnam says anti-realism is a bad explanation of accurate predictions [Putnam, by Okasha]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties

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Some properties are inseparable from a thing, such as the length, breadth and depth of a body [Sext.Empiricus]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 1. Justification / b. Need for justification

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Fools, infants and madmen may speak truly, but do not know [Sext.Empiricus]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / a. Reliable knowledge

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Madmen are reliable reporters of what appears to them [Sext.Empiricus]

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / b. Empirical concepts

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We can only dream of a winged man if we have experienced men and some winged thing [Sext.Empiricus]

19. Language / B. Reference / 5. Speaker's Reference

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No language is semantically referential; it all occurs at the level of thought or utterance [Pietroski, by Hofweber]