Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'A Puzzle Concerning Matter and Form', 'Interview with Baggini and Stangroom' and 'Semantics for Natural Languages'

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5 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence

16755

The possible Aristotelian view that forms are real and active principles is clearly wrong [Fine,K, by Pasnau]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions

15160

Davidson rejected ordinary meaning, and just used truth and reference instead [Davidson, by Soames]

14612

Davidson aimed to show that language is structured by first-order logic [Davidson, by Smart]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism

6853	Consequentialism wrongly assumes a clear line between an act and its consequences [Crisp,R]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 4. Ecology

6854	Does the environment have value in itself? [Crisp,R]