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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Truth' and 'Entity and Identity'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 4. Conceptual Analysis

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To explain a concept, we need its purpose, not just its rules of usage [Dummett]

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 1. Truth

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It is part of the concept of truth that we aim at making true statements [Dummett]

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 2. Defining Truth

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We must be able to specify truths in a precise language, like winning moves in a game [Dummett]

3. Truth / F. Semantic Truth / 2. Semantic Truth

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Tarski's truth is like rules for winning games, without saying what 'winning' means [Dummett, by Davidson]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / b. Need for abstracta

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We need a logical use of 'object' as predicate-worthy, and an 'ontological' use [Strawson,P]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences

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It makes no sense to ask of some individual thing what it is that makes it that individual [Strawson,P]

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

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

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 1. Abstract Thought

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You can't infer a dog's abstract concepts from its behaviour [Dummett]