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All the ideas for 'Truth (frags)', 'Moral Thinking: Its Levels,Method and Point' and 'Hat-Tricks and Heaps'

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5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 6. Paradoxes in Language / b. The Heap paradox ('Sorites')

9117	The smallest heap has four objects: three on the bottom, one on the top [Hart,WD, by Sorensen]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / i. Prescriptivism

4125	Hare says I acquire an agglomeration of preferences by role-reversal, leading to utilitarianism [Hare, by Williams,B]

4126	If we have to want the preferences of the many, we have to abandon our own deeply-held views [Williams,B on Hare]

4127	If morality is to be built on identification with the preferences of others, I must agree with their errors [Williams,B on Hare]

22483

A judgement is presciptive if we expect it to be acted on [Hare]

23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 8. Contract Strategies

4360	By far the easiest way of seeming upright is to be upright [Hare]