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All the ideas for 'Reason, Emotions and Good Life', 'Ethics without Principles' and 'The Problem of the Essential Indexical'

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8 ideas

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / b. Elements of beliefs

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Indexicals are a problem for beliefs being just subject-proposition relations [Perry]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 9. Indexical Semantics

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If we replace 'I' in sentences about me, they are different beliefs and explanations of behaviour [Perry]

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Indexicals individuate certain belief states, helping in explanation and prediction [Perry]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 6. Propositions Critique

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Indexicals reveal big problems with the traditional idea of a proposition [Perry]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / a. Practical reason

4316	Either all action is rational, or reason dominates, or reason is only concerned with means [Cottingham]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / a. Nature of value

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The base for values has grounds, catalysts and intensifiers [Dancy,J, by Orsi]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / c. Tenses and time

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Tense is essential for thought and action [Perry, by Le Poidevin]

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Actual tensed sentences cannot be tenseless, because they can cite their own context [Perry, by Le Poidevin]