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All the ideas for 'talk', 'Russell's Ontological Development' and 'works'

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6 ideas

2. Reason / D. Definition / 12. Paraphrase

21699

Russell offered a paraphrase of definite description, to avoid the commitment to objects [Quine]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

3534	To be is to have causal powers [Alexander,S]

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 / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 6. Epiphenomenalism

3398	Epiphenomenalism makes the mind totally pointless [Alexander,S]

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

21700

Taking sentences as the unit of meaning makes useful paraphrasing possible [Quine]

21701

Knowing a word is knowing the meanings of sentences which contain it [Quine]