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All the ideas for 'The Common-Sense View of Reality', 'On the Pragmatics of Communications' and 'The Nature of Thought'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 2. Possibility of Metaphysics

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Metaphysics is hopeless with its present epistemology; common-sense realism is needed [Colvin]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence

2764	Full coherence might involve consistency and mutual entailment of all propositions [Blanshard, by Dancy,J]

3. Truth / D. Coherence Truth / 1. Coherence Truth

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Coherence tests for truth without implying correspondence, so truth is not correspondence [Blanshard, by Young,JO]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism

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We can only distinguish self from non-self if there is an inflexible external reality [Colvin]

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Common-sense realism rests on our interests and practical life [Colvin]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism

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If objects are doubted because their appearances change, that presupposes one object [Colvin]

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Arguments that objects are unknowable or non-existent assume the knower's existence [Colvin]

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The idea that everything is relations is contradictory; relations are part of the concept of things [Colvin]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use

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To understand language is to know how to use it to reach shared understandings [Habermas]