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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Truth' and 'Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World'

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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]

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

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

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / i. Explanations by mechanism

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Causation produces productive mechanisms; to understand the world, understand these mechanisms [Salmon]

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Salmon's interaction mechanisms needn't be regular, or involving any systems [Glennan on Salmon]

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

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