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All the ideas for 'On the Pragmatics of Communications', 'Modern Moral Philosophy' and 'poems (frags)'

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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use

15666

To understand language is to know how to use it to reach shared understandings [Habermas]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character

8070	It would be better to point to failings of character, than to moral wrongness of actions [Anscombe]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

3015	The virtue of man is thoughtful foresight of future events [Chilo, by Diog. Laertius]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 1. Deontology

8065	'Ought' and 'right' are survivals from earlier ethics, and should be jettisoned [Anscombe]

8069	Between Aristotle and us, a Judaeo-Christian legal conception of ethics was developed [Anscombe]