Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Lectures on Ethics', 'Against Dryness: a polemical sketch' and 'Forget the 'correspondence theory of truth''

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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 5. Truth Bearers

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To be true a sentence must express a proposition, and not be ambiguous or vague or just expressive [Lewis]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 2. Truthmaker Relation

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Truthmakers are about existential grounding, not about truth [Lewis]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 11. Truthmaking and Correspondence

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Truthmaker is correspondence, but without the requirement to be one-to-one [Lewis]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 1. Existentialism

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Man is a brave naked will, separate from a background of values and realities [Murdoch]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 4. Suicide

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The maxim for suicide is committed to the value of life, and is thus contradictory [Kant]