Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense' and 'Russell's Ontological Development'

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2. Reason / D. Definition / 12. Paraphrase

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Russell offered a paraphrase of definite description, to avoid the commitment to objects [Quine]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity

490	Everything happens by reason and necessity [Leucippus]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 3. Abstraction by mind

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Leaves are unequal, but we form the concept 'leaf' by discarding their individual differences [Nietzsche]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / a. Sentence meaning

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Taking sentences as the unit of meaning makes useful paraphrasing possible [Quine]

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Knowing a word is knowing the meanings of sentences which contain it [Quine]