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All the ideas for 'Testability and Meaning', 'Identity, Essence and Indiscernibility' and 'On Recent German Literature. Fragments'

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3 ideas

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis

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Thoughts are learnt through words, so language shows the limits and shape of our knowledge [Herder]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay

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A statue is essentially the statue, but its lump is not essentially a statue, so statue isn't lump [Yablo, by Rocca]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / c. Truth-function conditionals

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In the truth-functional account a burnt-up match was soluble because it never entered water [Carnap]