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All the ideas for 'The Problem of Empty Names', 'Realism and Anti-Realism' and 'Matters of Mind'

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8 ideas

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]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism

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Metaphysical realists are committed to all unambiguous statements being true or not true [Dummett]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / e. Questions about mind

2534	Mindless bodies are zombies, bodiless minds are ghosts [Sturgeon]

2537	Types are properties, and tokens are events. Are they split between mental and physical, or not? [Sturgeon]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 5. Qualia / b. Qualia and intentionality

2532	Intentionality isn't reducible, because of its experiential aspect [Sturgeon]

17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 1. Reductionism critique

2533	Rule-following can't be reduced to the physical [Sturgeon]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 5. Causal Argument

2535	The main argument for physicalism is its simple account of causation [Sturgeon]

18. Thought / C. Content / 10. Causal Semantics

2536	Do facts cause thoughts, or embody them, or what? [Sturgeon]