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All the ideas for 'Representation in Music', 'Philosophical Analysis' and 'Some Judgements of Perception'

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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 1. Nature of Analysis

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Analysis aims at the structure of facts, which are needed to give a rationale to analysis [Urmson, by Schaffer,J]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 2. Common Sense Certainty

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Arguments that my finger does not exist are less certain than your seeing my finger [Moore,GE]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 4. Art as Expression

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Reference without predication is the characteristic of expression [Scruton]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 5. Art as Language

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If music refers to love, it contains no predication, so it is expression, not language [Scruton]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 8. The Arts / a. Music

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Music is not representational, since thoughts about a subject are never essential to it [Scruton]