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All the ideas for 'The Problem of Empty Names', 'Minds, Brains and Science' and 'On Metaphysics (frags)'

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5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / e. Empty names

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Unreflectively, we all assume there are nonexistents, and we can refer to them [Reimer]

17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 7. Chinese Room

2427	Maybe understanding doesn't need consciousness, despite what Searle seems to think [Searle, by Chalmers]

7389	A program won't contain understanding if it is small enough to imagine [Dennett on Searle]

7390	If bigger and bigger brain parts can't understand, how can a whole brain? [Dennett on Searle]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / c. Purpose denied

5990	Theophrastus doubted whether nature could be explained teleologically [Theophrastus, by Gottschalk]