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All the ideas for 'Syntactic Structure', 'The Emperor's New 'Knows'' and 'Could a computer ever understand?'

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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]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / b. Invariantism

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How could 'S knows he has hands' not have a fixed content? [Bach]

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If contextualism is right, knowledge sentences are baffling out of their context [Bach]

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Sceptics aren't changing the meaning of 'know', but claiming knowing is tougher than we think [Bach]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / e. Cause of consciousness

4921	Quantum states in microtubules could bind brain activity to produce consciousness [Penrose]

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]