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All the ideas for 'Philosophical Fragments', 'Ethics and Language' and 'Identity, Essence and Indiscernibility'

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4 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence

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I assume existence, rather than reasoning towards it [Kierkegaard]

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 / A. Necessity / 2. Nature of Necessity

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Nothing necessary can come into existence, since it already 'is' [Kierkegaard]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism

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Moral words have an inherited power from expressing attitudes in emotional situations [Stevenson,CL]