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All the ideas for 'Through the Looking Glass', 'Introduction to a Secret Encyclopaedia' and 'Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 2. Analysis by Division

13099

Analysing right down to primitive concepts seems beyond our powers [Leibniz]

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 8. Subjective Truth

5022	We hold a proposition true if we are ready to follow it, and can't see any objections [Leibniz]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing

21982

I only wish I had such eyes as to see Nobody! It's as much as I can do to see real people. [Carroll,L]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 10. Rule Following

19271

No rule can be fully explained [Kripke]

19269

'Quus' means the same as 'plus' if the ingredients are less than 57; otherwise it just produces 5 [Kripke]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 10. Denial of Meanings

7305	Kripke's Wittgenstein says meaning 'vanishes into thin air' [Kripke, by Miller,A]

19270

If you ask what is in your mind for following the addition rule, meaning just seems to vanish [Kripke]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 6. Truth-Conditions Semantics

11076

Community implies assertability-conditions rather than truth-conditions semantics [Kripke, by Hanna]

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

11075

The sceptical rule-following paradox is the basis of the private language argument [Kripke, by Hanna]