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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Inventing Logical Necessity' and 'Pragmatism in Retrospect'

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3. Truth / E. Pragmatic Truth / 1. Pragmatic Truth

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Independent truth (if there is any) is the ultimate result of sufficient enquiry [Peirce]

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Peirce's theory offers anti-realist verificationism, but surely how things are is independent of us? [Horsten on Peirce]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 6. Logical Necessity

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Logical necessity involves a decision about usage, and is non-realist and non-cognitive [Wright,C, by McFetridge]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 3. Pragmatism

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Pragmatism is a way of establishing meanings, not a theory of metaphysics or a set of truths [Peirce]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism

7320	Holism cannot give a coherent account of scientific methodology [Wright,C, by Miller,A]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

468	Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]