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All the ideas for 'Classical Cosmology (frags)', 'Locke on Essences and Kinds' and 'Mr Strawson on Referring'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis
21552 Common speech is vague; its vocabulary and syntax must be modified, for precision [Russell]
2. Reason / D. Definition / 11. Ostensive Definition
21551 Empirical words need ostensive definition, which makes them egocentric [Russell]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 13. Nominal Essence
15642 If kinds depend only on what can be observed, many underlying essences might produce the same kind [Eagle]
15645 Nominal essence are the observable properties of things [Eagle]
15643 Nominal essence mistakenly gives equal weight to all underlying properties that produce appearances [Eagle]
19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 9. Indexical Semantics
21550 Science reduces indexicals to a minimum, but they can never be eliminated from empirical matters [Russell]
26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 4. Source of Kinds
15641 Kinds are fixed by the essential properties of things - the properties that make it that kind of thing [Eagle]
27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology
5994 Is the cosmos open or closed, mechanical or teleological, alive or inanimate, and created or eternal? [Robinson,TM, by PG]