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All the ideas for 'talk', 'Letters to Jourdain' and 'The Mental Life of Some Machines'

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5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / a. Names

8447	In 'Etna is higher than Vesuvius' the whole of Etna, including all the lava, can't be the reference [Frege]

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

8448	Any object can have many different names, each with a distinct sense [Frege]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention

1556	By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]

17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 2. Machine Functionalism

5495	Instances of pain are physical tokens, but the nature of pain is more abstract [Putnam, by Lycan]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / a. Sentence meaning

8446	We understand new propositions by constructing their sense from the words [Frege]

19. Language / B. Reference / 4. Descriptive Reference / a. Sense and reference

8449	Senses can't be subjective, because propositions would be private, and disagreement impossible [Frege]