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All the ideas for 'The Logical Syntax of Language', 'Forget the 'correspondence theory of truth'' and 'Of Human Freedom'

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8 ideas

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 5. Truth Bearers
10845 To be true a sentence must express a proposition, and not be ambiguous or vague or just expressive [Lewis]
3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 2. Truthmaker Relation
10847 Truthmakers are about existential grounding, not about truth [Lewis]
3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 11. Truthmaking and Correspondence
10846 Truthmaker is correspondence, but without the requirement to be one-to-one [Lewis]
5. Theory of Logic / B. Logical Consequence / 1. Logical Consequence
13342 Carnap defined consequence by contradiction, but this is unintuitive and changes with substitution [Tarski on Carnap]
5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 4. Logic by Convention
13251 Each person is free to build their own logic, just by specifying a syntax [Carnap]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / c. Becoming
22076 Being is only perceptible to itself as becoming [Schelling]
11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism
22074 We must show that the whole of nature, because it is effective, is grounded in freedom [Schelling]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 2. Sources of Free Will
22075 Only idealism has given us the genuine concept of freedom [Schelling]