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All the ideas for 'The Will to Believe', 'fragments/reports' and 'Why Propositions Aren't Truth-Supporting Circumstance'

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5 ideas

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 2. Semantics

13965

Semantics as theory of meaning and semantics as truth-based logical consequence are very different [Soames]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 6. Truth-Conditions Semantics

13964

Semantic content is a proposition made of sentence constituents (not some set of circumstances) [Soames]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character

541	Virtue comes more from habit than character [Critias]

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 4. Unfairness

6570	Imagine millions made happy on condition that one person suffers endless lonely torture [James]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

542	Fear of the gods was invented to discourage secret sin [Critias]