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All the ideas for 'Natural Science (lost)', 'Meaning' and 'Counterfactual Dependence and Time's Arrow'

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5 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

527	Everything exists which anyone perceives [Metrodorus of Chios]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 3. Meaning as Speaker's Intention

7751	Meaning needs an intention to induce a belief, and a recognition that this is the speaker's intention [Grice]

7752	Only the utterer's primary intention is relevant to the meaning [Grice]

7753	We judge linguistic intentions rather as we judge non-linguistic intentions, so they are alike [Grice]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 5. Direction of causation

8433	There are few traces of an event before it happens, but many afterwards [Lewis, by Horwich]