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All the ideas for 'works', 'Postscripts on supervenience' and 'The Language of Thought'

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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience

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Supervenience is not a dependence relation, on the lines of causal, mereological or semantic dependence [Kim]

13746

Supervenience is just a 'surface' relation of pattern covariation, which still needs deeper explanation [Kim]

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

8090	Since the language of thought is the same for all, it must be something like logical form [Fodor, by Devlin]

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / c. Nativist concepts

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If concept-learning is hypothesis-testing, that needs innate concepts to get started [Fodor, by Margolis/Laurence]

19. Language / F. Communication / 4. Private Language

8478	Dewey argued long before Wittgenstein that there could not seriously be a private language [Dewey, by Orenstein]