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All the ideas for '04: Gospel of St John', 'Varieties of Meaning' and 'Human Knowledge: its scope and limits'

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 2. Logos

6294	In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the word was God [John]

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 2. Defining Truth

8821	Jesus said he bore witness to the truth. Pilate asked, What is truth? [John]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / c. not

16489

Is it possible to state every possible truth about the whole course of nature without using 'not'? [Russell]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 6. Logical Necessity

16490

Some facts about experience feel like logical necessities [Russell]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique

16488

It is hard to explain how a sentence like 'it is not raining' can be found true by observation [Russell]

18. Thought / C. Content / 11. Teleological Semantics

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Biosemantics says content is useful mapping from a producer to a consumer system [Millikan, by Schulte]

19. Language / F. Communication / 3. Denial

16491

If we define 'this is not blue' as disbelief in 'this is blue', we eliminate 'not' as an ingredient of facts [Russell]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

4786	Russell's 'at-at' theory says motion is to be at the intervening points at the intervening instants [Russell, by Psillos]