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All the ideas for 'Symposium', 'The Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme' and 'On Assertion and Indicative Conditionals'

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7 ideas

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 12. Rejecting Truthmakers

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Saying truths fit experience adds nothing to truth; nothing makes sentences true [Davidson]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / c. Truth-function conditionals

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'If A,B' affirms that A⊃B, and also that this wouldn't change if A were certain [Jackson, by Edgington]

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Conditionals are truth-functional, but should only be asserted when they are confident [Jackson, by Edgington]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique

6400	Without the dualism of scheme and content, not much is left of empiricism [Davidson]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 6. Relativism Critique

6398	Different points of view make sense, but they must be plotted on a common background [Davidson]

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

6399	Criteria of translation give us the identity of conceptual schemes [Davidson]

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

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