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All the ideas for 'The Roots of Reference', 'Tarski on Truth and Logical Consequence' and 'Structure and Nature'

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5 ideas

3. Truth / F. Semantic Truth / 1. Tarski's Truth / c. Meta-language for truth

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'Snow is white' depends on meaning; whether snow is white depends on snow [Etchemendy]

3. Truth / G. Axiomatic Truth / 1. Axiomatic Truth

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We can get a substantive account of Tarski's truth by adding primitive 'true' to the object language [Etchemendy]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 7. Mathematical Structuralism / a. Structuralism

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I apply structuralism to concrete and abstract objects indiscriminately [Quine]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism

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My ontology is quarks etc., classes of such things, classes of such classes etc. [Quine]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived

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Dispositions are physical states of mechanism; when known, these replace the old disposition term [Quine]