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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Intro to Classical Chinese Philosophy' and 'Attitudes De Dicto and De Se'

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1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 2. Ancient Thought

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The Dao (Way) first means the road, and comes to mean the right way to live [Norden]

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 3. Hermeneutics

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The hermeneutic circle is either within the text, or between text and biased reader [Norden]

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Heremeneutics is either 'faith' (examining truth) or 'suspicion' (looking for hidden motives) [Norden]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 3. Axioms for Geometry

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Archimedes defined a straight line as the shortest distance between two points [Archimedes, by Leibniz]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / d. Possible worlds actualism

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The actual world is just the world you are in [Lewis, by Cappelen/Dever]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs

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A content is a property, and believing it is self-ascribing that property [Lewis, by Recanati]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 2. Propositional Attitudes

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Attitudes involve properties (not propositions), and belief is self-ascribing the properties [Lewis, by Solomon]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 9. Indexical Thought

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Lewis's popular centred worlds approach gives an attitude an index of world, subject and time [Lewis, by Recanati]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions

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A theory of perspectival de se content gives truth conditions relative to an agent [Lewis, by Cappelen/Dever]