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All the ideas for 'The Problem of Empty Names', 'The Nature and Communication of Substance' and 'The Language of Morals'

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5 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / e. Empty names
18946 Unreflectively, we all assume there are nonexistents, and we can refer to them [Reimer]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience
16050 The goodness of a picture supervenes on the picture; duplicates must be equally good [Hare]
17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 5. Parallelism
2596 Maybe mind and body are parallel, like two good clocks [Leibniz]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / i. Prescriptivism
2855 In primary evaluative words like 'ought' prescription is constant but description can vary [Hare, by Hooker,B]
28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / b. Teleological Proof
2595 If the universe is a perfect agreement of uncommunicating substances, there must be a common source [Leibniz]