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All the ideas for 'Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong', 'Demonstratives' and 'The Gathas (seventeen hymns)'

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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 10. Two-Dimensional Semantics

14894

Indexicals have a 'character' (the standing meaning), and a 'content' (truth-conditions for one context) [Kaplan, by Macià/Garcia-Carpentiro]

14700

'Content' gives the standard modal profile, and 'character' gives rules for a context [Kaplan, by Schroeter]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism

4761	The 'error theory' of morals says there is no moral knowledge, because there are no moral facts [Mackie, by Engel]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 1. Monotheistic Religion

7598	Zoroaster and the Hebrew prophets evolved different versions of monotheism [Zoroaster, by Armstrong,K]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 3. Zoroastrianism

7472	Zarathustra was the first to present a god who is an abstract concept [Zoroaster]

20672

Zoroastrianism saw the world as a battle between good evil gods [Zoroaster, by Harari]