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All the ideas for 'The Problem of Empty Names', 'The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences' and 'Does Moral Subjectivism Rest on a Mistake?'

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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]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / d. Consilience

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Consilience is a common groundwork of explanation [Whewell]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism

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Non-cognitivists give the conditions of use of moral sentences as facts about the speaker [Foot]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism

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The mistake is to think good grounds aren't enough for moral judgement, which also needs feelings [Foot]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / b. Fact and value

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Moral arguments are grounded in human facts [Foot]