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All the ideas for 'God and Human Attributes', 'The Logical Syntax of Language' and 'Presupposition and Conversational Implicature'

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5 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / B. Logical Consequence / 1. Logical Consequence

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Carnap defined consequence by contradiction, but this is unintuitive and changes with substitution [Tarski on Carnap]

5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 4. Logic by Convention

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Each person is free to build their own logic, just by specifying a syntax [Carnap]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / f. Pragmatics of conditionals

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Conditionals are truth-functional, but unassertable in tricky cases? [Grice, by Read]

19. Language / F. Communication / 5. Pragmatics / b. Implicature

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Key conversational maxims are 'quality' (assert truth) and 'quantity' (leave nothing out) [Grice, by Read]

28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / c. Moral Argument

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God must be fit for worship, but worship abandons morally autonomy, but there is no God [Rachels, by Davies,B]