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All the ideas for 'poems', 'The Causal Theory of Names' and 'Treatise of Freewill'

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11 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / a. Names

9038	We must distinguish what the speaker denotes by a name, from what the name denotes [Evans]

5824	How can an expression be a name, if names can change their denotation? [Evans]

9042	A private intention won't give a name a denotation; the practice needs it to be made public [Evans]

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / c. Names as referential

9041	The Causal Theory of Names is wrong, since the name 'Madagascar' actually changed denotation [Evans]

19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / b. Causal reference

5825	Speakers intend to refer to items that are the source of their information [Evans]

5823	The intended referent of a name needs to be the cause of the speaker's information about it [Evans]

19. Language / B. Reference / 4. Descriptive Reference / b. Reference by description

9039	If descriptions are sufficient for reference, then I must accept a false reference if the descriptions fit [Evans]

19. Language / F. Communication / 5. Pragmatics / b. Implicature

9043	We use expressions 'deferentially', to conform to the use of other people [Evans]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / c. Principle of charity

9040	Charity should minimize inexplicable error, rather than maximising true beliefs [Evans]

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

6017	Nomos is king [Pindar]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 6. Authentic Self

6231	There is a self-determing power in each person, which makes them what they are [Cudworth]