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All the ideas for 'Symposium', 'On the Soul (frags)' and 'Semantic Necessity'

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5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 8. Theories in Logic

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Theories in logic are sentences closed under consequence, but in truth discussions theories have axioms [Fine,K]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity

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The role of semantic necessity in semantics is like metaphysical necessity in metaphysics [Fine,K, by Hale/Hoffmann,A]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 3. Eliminativism

5997	Dicaearchus said soul does not exist, but is just a configuration of the body [Dicaearchus, by Fortenbaugh]

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

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Semantics is either an assignment of semantic values, or a theory of truth [Fine,K]

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Semantics is a body of semantic requirements, not semantic truths or assigned values [Fine,K]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 7. Extensional Semantics

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Referential semantics (unlike Fregeanism) allows objects themselves in to semantic requirements [Fine,K]

19. Language / E. Analyticity / 4. Analytic/Synthetic Critique

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The Quinean doubt: are semantics and facts separate, and do analytic sentences have no factual part? [Fine,K]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / h. Fine deeds

5845	Niceratus learnt the whole of Homer by heart, as a guide to goodness [Xenophon]