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All the ideas for 'Syntactic Structure', 'Theory of Knowledge (2nd edn)' and 'Is There a Marxist Doctrine?'

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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / b. Seventeenth century philosophy

2945	Most philosophers start with reality and then examine knowledge; Descartes put the study of knowledge first [Lehrer]

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 4. Conceptual Analysis

2946	You cannot demand an analysis of a concept without knowing the purpose of the analysis [Lehrer]

2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 8. Category Mistake / c. Category mistake as semantic

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Chomsky established the view that category mistakes are well-formed but meaningless [Chomsky, by Magidor]

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth

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Most people won't question an idea's truth if they depend on it [Weil]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 1. Syntax

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Syntax is independent of semantics; sentences can be well formed but meaningless [Chomsky, by Magidor]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / d. Weakness of will

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Weakness of will is the inadequacy of the original impetus to carry through the action [Weil]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

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In a violent moral disagreement, it can't be that both sides are just following social morality [Weil]

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / b. Justice in war

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When war was a profession, customary morality justified any act of war [Weil]