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All the ideas for 'The Basing Relation', 'Does Moral Subjectivism Rest on a Mistake?' and 'Semantics for Natural Languages'

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11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs
19696 There are reasons 'for which' a belief is held, reasons 'why' it is believed, and reasons 'to' believe it [Neta]
19697 The basing relation of a reason to a belief should both support and explain the belief [Neta]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions
15160 Davidson rejected ordinary meaning, and just used truth and reference instead [Davidson, by Soames]
14612 Davidson aimed to show that language is structured by first-order logic [Davidson, by Smart]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism
22485 Non-cognitivists give the conditions of use of moral sentences as facts about the speaker [Foot]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism
22486 The mistake is to think good grounds aren't enough for moral judgement, which also needs feelings [Foot]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / b. Fact and value
22487 Moral arguments are grounded in human facts [Foot]