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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Elm and the Expert' and 'Philosophical Investigations'

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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 2. Propositional Attitudes
2440 Propositional attitudes are propositions presented in a certain way [Fodor]
18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 5. Rationality / a. Rationality
2450 Rationality has mental properties - autonomy, productivity, experiment [Fodor]
18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 10. Rule Following
4158 An 'inner process' stands in need of outward criteria [Wittgenstein]
6165 Every course of action can either accord or conflict with a rule, so there is no accord or conflict [Wittgenstein]
4143 One cannot obey a rule 'privately', because that is a practice, not the same as thinking one is obeying [Wittgenstein]
7092 If individuals can't tell if they are following a rule, how does a community do it? [Grayling on Wittgenstein]
18. Thought / C. Content / 5. Twin Earth
2437 XYZ (Twin Earth 'water') is an impossibility [Fodor]
18. Thought / C. Content / 6. Broad Content
4138 Is white simple, or does it consist of the colours of the rainbow? [Wittgenstein]
7055 Externalist accounts of mental content begin in Wittgenstein [Wittgenstein, by Heil]
2441 Truth conditions require a broad concept of content [Fodor]
18. Thought / C. Content / 7. Narrow Content
3114 Concepts aren't linked to stuff; they are what is caused by stuff [Fodor]
18. Thought / C. Content / 10. Causal Semantics
2452 Knowing the cause of a thought is almost knowing its content [Fodor]
18. Thought / C. Content / 12. Informational Semantics
2432 Is content basically information, fixed externally? [Fodor]
18. Thought / D. Concepts / 3. Ontology of Concepts / b. Concepts as abilities
12576 Possessing a concept is knowing how to go on [Wittgenstein, by Peacocke]
4157 Concepts direct our interests and investigations, and express those interests [Wittgenstein]
12606 Man learns the concept of the past by remembering [Wittgenstein]
2438 In the information view, concepts are potentials for making distinctions [Fodor]
18. Thought / D. Concepts / 4. Structure of Concepts / h. Family resemblance
4141 Various games have a 'family resemblance', as their similarities overlap and criss-cross [Wittgenstein]