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All the ideas for 'Events and Their Names', 'Kant's Analytic' and 'Pragmatism in Retrospect'

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6 ideas

3. Truth / E. Pragmatic Truth / 1. Pragmatic Truth

15335

Peirce's theory offers anti-realist verificationism, but surely how things are is independent of us? [Horsten on Peirce]

14796

Independent truth (if there is any) is the ultimate result of sufficient enquiry [Peirce]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events

8978	Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology [Bennett]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 3. Pragmatism

14795

Pragmatism is a way of establishing meanings, not a theory of metaphysics or a set of truths [Peirce]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata

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Facts are about the world, not in it, so they can't cause anything [Bennett]

27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 4. Substantival Space

8592	Empty space is measurable in ways in which empty time necessarily is not [Bennett, by Shoemaker]