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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', ''Objectivity' in Social Sciences and Social Policy' and 'Transworld Heir Lines'

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11 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 5. Objectivity

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There is no objectivity in social sciences - only viewpoints for selecting and organising data [Weber]

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The results of social research can be true, and not just subjectively valid for one person [Weber]

5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 1. Ontology of Logic

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Logicians like their entities to exhibit a maximum degree of purity [Kaplan]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being

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Not-Being obviously doesn't exist, and the five modes of Being are all impossible [Gorgias, by Diog. Laertius]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 7. Substratum

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Models nicely separate particulars from their clothing, and logicians often accept that metaphysically [Kaplan]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / a. Transworld identity

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The simplest solution to transworld identification is to adopt bare particulars [Kaplan]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / c. Counterparts

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Essence is a transworld heir line, rather than a collection of properties [Kaplan]

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Unusual people may have no counterparts, or several [Kaplan]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 8. Synonymy

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Sentences might have the same sense when logically equivalent - or never have the same sense [Kaplan]

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

9866	Gorgias says rhetoric is the best of arts, because it enslaves without using force [Gorgias, by Plato]

5864	Destroy seriousness with laughter, and laughter with seriousness [Gorgias]