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All the ideas for 'Substances without Substrata', 'The Foundations of Mathematics (2nd ed)' and 'Semantics for Natural Languages'

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8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 4. Formal Relations / b. Equivalence relation

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An 'equivalence' relation is one which is reflexive, symmetric and transitive [Kunen]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions

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Davidson rejected ordinary meaning, and just used truth and reference instead [Davidson, by Soames]

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Davidson aimed to show that language is structured by first-order logic [Davidson, by Smart]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / c. Principle of charity

6316	We translate in a way that makes the largest possible number of statements true [Wilson,NL]