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All the ideas for 'Representation in Music', 'De Cive' and 'The Metaphysics of Space-Time Substantivalism'

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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]

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / c. Combatants

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I act justly if I follow my Prince in an apparently unjust war, and refusing to fight would be injustice [Hobbes]

27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 4. Substantival Space

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General Relativity allows substantivalism about space-time - that it has independent properties [Hoefer]