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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Mr Strawson on Referring' and 'Whose Justice? Which Rationality?'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis
21552 Common speech is vague; its vocabulary and syntax must be modified, for precision [Russell]
2. Reason / D. Definition / 11. Ostensive Definition
21551 Empirical words need ostensive definition, which makes them egocentric [Russell]
10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity
490 Everything happens by reason and necessity [Leucippus]
13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 4. Cultural relativism
10356 Relativism can be seen as about the rationality of different cultural traditions [MacIntyre, by Kusch]
19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 9. Indexical Semantics
21550 Science reduces indexicals to a minimum, but they can never be eliminated from empirical matters [Russell]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / g. Liberalism critique
23080 Liberals debate how conservative or radical to be, but don't question their basics [MacIntyre]