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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Semantic Necessity' and 'Preface to 'Principles of Philosophy''

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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 4. Metaphysics as Science

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Metaphysics is the roots of the tree of science [Descartes]

2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 4. Circularity

3659	I know the truth that God exists and is the author of truth [Descartes]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 8. Theories in Logic

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Theories in logic are sentences closed under consequence, but in truth discussions theories have axioms [Fine,K]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity

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The role of semantic necessity in semantics is like metaphysical necessity in metaphysics [Fine,K, by Hale/Hoffmann,A]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty

3657	Understanding, not the senses, gives certainty [Descartes]

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

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Semantics is either an assignment of semantic values, or a theory of truth [Fine,K]

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Semantics is a body of semantic requirements, not semantic truths or assigned values [Fine,K]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 7. Extensional Semantics

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Referential semantics (unlike Fregeanism) allows objects themselves in to semantic requirements [Fine,K]

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

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The Quinean doubt: are semantics and facts separate, and do analytic sentences have no factual part? [Fine,K]

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

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

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

3660	Atheism arises from empiricism, because God is intangible [Descartes]