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All the ideas for 'Philosophical Analysis', 'How there could be a private language' and 'The Varieties of Necessity'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 1. Nature of Analysis

13750

Analysis aims at the structure of facts, which are needed to give a rationale to analysis [Urmson, by Schaffer,J]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity

9216	Each area of enquiry, and its source, has its own distinctive type of necessity [Fine,K]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 7. Testimony

9214	Unsupported testimony may still be believable [Fine,K]

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 4. Language of Thought

2604	We must have expressive power BEFORE we learn language [Fodor]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / a. Scientific essentialism

9215	Causation is easier to disrupt than logic, so metaphysics is part of nature, not vice versa [Fine,K]