Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Dappled World', 'Events and Semantic Architecture' and 'Intending'

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4 ideas

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

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Theories can never represent accurately, because their components are abstract [Cartwright,N, by Portides]

19. Language / B. Reference / 5. Speaker's Reference

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No language is semantically referential; it all occurs at the level of thought or utterance [Pietroski, by Hofweber]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / a. Nature of intentions

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An intending is a judgement that the action is desirable [Davidson]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / c. Reducing intentions

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Davidson gave up reductive accounts of intention, and said it was a primitive [Davidson, by Wilson/Schpall]