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All the ideas for 'Predest.,God's foreknowledge and contingents', 'On the Conservation of Force' and 'Truth and Meaning'

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8 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 1. Logical Form

7332	There is a huge range of sentences of which we do not know the logical form [Davidson]

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]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 4. Compositionality

7772	Compositionality explains how long sentences work, and truth conditions are the main compositional feature [Davidson, by Lycan]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 5. Fregean Semantics

7327	Davidson thinks Frege lacks an account of how words create sentence-meaning [Davidson, by Miller,A]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 9. Indexical Semantics

7769	You can state truth-conditions for "I am sick now" by relativising it to a speaker at a time [Davidson, by Lycan]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / b. Indeterminate translation

6179	Should we assume translation to define truth, or the other way around? [Blackburn on Davidson]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 2. Thermodynamics / a. Energy

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Helmholtz used 'energy' to mathematically link heat, light, electricity and magnetism [Helmholtz, by Watson]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 2. Thermodynamics / c. Conservation of energy

20973

All forces conserve the sum of kinetic and potential energy [Helmholtz, by Papineau]