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All the ideas for 'Leibniz', 'Truth and Meaning' and 'Reply to Richards'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

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The greatest philosophers are methodical; it is what makes them great [Grice]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 1. Logical Form

7332	There is a huge range of sentences of which we do not know the logical form [Davidson]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 7. Indiscernible Objects

7566	The Identity of Indiscernibles is really the same as the verification principle [Jolley]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 4. Compositionality

7772	Compositionality explains how long sentences work, and truth conditions are the main compositional feature [Davidson, by Lycan]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 5. Fregean Semantics

7327	Davidson thinks Frege lacks an account of how words create sentence-meaning [Davidson, by Miller,A]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 9. Indexical Semantics

7769	You can state truth-conditions for "I am sick now" by relativising it to a speaker at a time [Davidson, by Lycan]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / b. Indeterminate translation

6179	Should we assume translation to define truth, or the other way around? [Blackburn on Davidson]