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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Anarchical Fallacies: on the Declaration of Rights' and 'The Concept of Logical Consequence'

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2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic

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Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius]

5. Theory of Logic / B. Logical Consequence / 1. Logical Consequence

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Split out the logical vocabulary, make an assignment to the rest. It's logical if premises and conclusion match [Tarski, by Rumfitt]

5. Theory of Logic / B. Logical Consequence / 4. Semantic Consequence |=

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X follows from sentences K iff every model of K also models X [Tarski]

5. Theory of Logic / J. Model Theory in Logic / 1. Logical Models

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A 'model' is a sequence of objects which satisfies a complete set of sentential functions [Tarski]

19. Language / E. Analyticity / 1. Analytic Propositions

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Sentences are 'analytical' if every sequence of objects models them [Tarski]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / f. The Mean

3049	The chief good is indifference to what lies midway between virtue and vice [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 1. Deontology

3549	Ariston says rules are useless for the virtuous and the non-virtuous [Ariston, by Annas]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 3. Natural Values / c. Natural rights

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Natural rights are nonsense, and unspecified natural rights is nonsense on stilts [Bentham]

25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights

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Only laws can produce real rights; rights from 'law of nature' are imaginary [Bentham]