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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Minds, Brains and Science' and 'Facts and Propositions'

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2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic
20768 Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius]
3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 1. Redundant Truth
3750 "It is true that x" means no more than x [Ramsey]
17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 7. Chinese Room
2427 Maybe understanding doesn't need consciousness, despite what Searle seems to think [Searle, by Chalmers]
7389 A program won't contain understanding if it is small enough to imagine [Dennett on Searle]
7390 If bigger and bigger brain parts can't understand, how can a whole brain? [Dennett on Searle]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / c. Meaning by Role
18818 Sentence meaning is given by the actions to which it would lead [Ramsey]
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]