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All the ideas for 'General Facts,Phys Necessity, and Metaph of Time', 'Contemporary Efficient Causation: Aristotelian themes' and 'Russell's Ontological Development'

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2. Reason / D. Definition / 12. Paraphrase

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Russell offered a paraphrase of definite description, to avoid the commitment to objects [Quine]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 3. Truthmaker Maximalism

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The truth-maker principle is that every truth has a sufficient truth-maker [Forrest]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / a. Sentence meaning

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Taking sentences as the unit of meaning makes useful paraphrasing possible [Quine]

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Knowing a word is knowing the meanings of sentences which contain it [Quine]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation

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Causation interests us because we want to explain change [Mumford]