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All the ideas for 'Predest.,God's foreknowledge and contingents', 'Intention' and 'Empty Names'

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7 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / a. Names

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Semantic theory should specify when an act of naming is successful [Sawyer]

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / c. Names as referential

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Millians say a name just means its object [Sawyer]

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / e. Empty names

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Sentences with empty names can be understood, be co-referential, and even be true [Sawyer]

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Frege's compositional account of truth-vaues makes 'Pegasus doesn't exist' neither true nor false [Sawyer]

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 2. Descriptions / c. Theory of definite descriptions

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Definites descriptions don't solve the empty names problem, because the properties may not exist [Sawyer]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism

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Our words and concepts don't always correspond to what is out there [William of Ockham]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / a. Nature of intentions

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Intentional actions are those which are explained by giving the reason for so acting [Anscombe]