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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'A world of truthmakers?' and 'How to Make our Ideas Clear'

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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 6. Making Negative Truths

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If it were true that nothing at all existed, would that have a truthmaker? [Lewis]

3. Truth / E. Pragmatic Truth / 1. Pragmatic Truth

7661	Truth is the opinion fated to be ultimately agreed by all investigators [Peirce]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 6. Constitution of an Object

6019	If someone squashed a horse to make a dog, something new would now exist [Mnesarchus]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

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Our whole conception of an object is its possible practical consequences [Peirce]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / b. Elements of beliefs

7660	We are aware of beliefs, they appease our doubts, and they are rules of action, or habits [Peirce]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification

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Non-positivist verificationism says only take a hypothesis seriously if it is scientifically based and testable [Ladyman/Ross on Peirce]