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All the ideas for 'works', 'Reference and Essence: seven appendices' and 'On the Nature of Moral Values'

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8 ideas

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth

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Science is sympathetic to truth as correspondence, since it depends on observation [Quine]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / g. Degrees of vagueness

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It can't be indeterminate whether x and y are identical; if x,y is indeterminate, then it isn't x,x [Salmon,N]

14. Science / C. Induction / 2. Aims of Induction

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More careful inductions gradually lead to the hypothetico-deductive method [Quine]

19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / a. Direct reference

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Kripke and Putnam made false claims that direct reference implies essentialism [Salmon,N]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / a. Nature of value

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Altruistic values concern other persons, and ceremonial values concern practices [Quine]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love

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Love seems to diminish with distance from oneself [Quine]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / d. Heresy

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Philosophers are the forefathers of heretics [Tertullian]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / e. Fideism

6610	I believe because it is absurd [Tertullian]