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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Letters' and 'Why Propositions Aren't Truth-Supporting Circumstance'

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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]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 2. Semantics

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Semantics as theory of meaning and semantics as truth-based logical consequence are very different [Soames]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 6. Truth-Conditions Semantics

13964

Semantic content is a proposition made of sentence constituents (not some set of circumstances) [Soames]

19. Language / E. Analyticity / 4. Analytic/Synthetic Critique

21338

I will even consider changing a meaning to save a law; I question the meaning-fact cleavage [Quine]

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]