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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'What is Analytic Philosophy?' and 'Introduction to Philosophical Papers II'

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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 1. Nature of Analysis
Analysis must include definitions, search for simples, concept analysis, and Kant's analysis [Glock]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / d. Humean supervenience
Humean supervenience says the world is just a vast mosaic of qualities in space-time [Lewis]
11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism
German and British idealism is not about individual ideas, but the intelligibility of reality [Glock]
18. Thought / D. Concepts / 4. Structure of Concepts / h. Family resemblance
The variety of uses of 'game' may be that it has several meanings, and isn't a single concept [Glock]
We might say that the family resemblance is just a consequence of meaning-as-use [Glock]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia
Critolaus redefined Aristotle's moral aim as fulfilment instead of happiness [Critolaus, by White,SA]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature
The world is just a vast mosaic of little matters of local particular fact [Lewis]