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All the ideas for 'Content Preservation', 'Absolute Necessities' and 'Syntactic Structure'

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11 ideas

2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 8. Category Mistake / c. Category mistake as semantic

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Chomsky established the view that category mistakes are well-formed but meaningless [Chomsky, by Magidor]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 2. Nature of Necessity

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Absolute necessity might be achievable either logically or metaphysically [Hale]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 3. Types of Necessity

8261	Maybe not-p is logically possible, but p is metaphysically necessary, so the latter is not absolute [Hale]

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A strong necessity entails a weaker one, but not conversely; possibilities go the other way [Hale]

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'Relative' necessity is just a logical consequence of some statements ('strong' if they are all true) [Hale]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 5. Metaphysical Necessity

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Metaphysical necessity says there is no possibility of falsehood [Hale]

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

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'Broadly' logical necessities are derived (in a structure) entirely from the concepts [Hale]

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Logical necessities are true in virtue of the nature of all logical concepts [Hale]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 4. Necessity from Concepts

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Conceptual necessities are made true by all concepts [Hale]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 1. External Justification

9382	Subjects may be unaware of their epistemic 'entitlements', unlike their 'justifications' [Burge]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 1. Syntax

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Syntax is independent of semantics; sentences can be well formed but meaningless [Chomsky, by Magidor]