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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Tractatus' and 'Thoughts without Laws'

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 3. Hermeneutics

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Interpreting a text is representing it as making sense [Morris,M]

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 1. Bivalence

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Bipolarity adds to Bivalence the capacity for both truth values [Morris,M]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 1. Quantification

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Conjunctive and disjunctive quantifiers are too specific, and are confined to the finite [Morris,M]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / c. Counting procedure

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To count, we must distinguish things, and have a series with successors in it [Morris,M]

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Counting needs to distinguish things, and also needs the concept of a successor in a series [Morris,M]

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Discriminating things for counting implies concepts of identity and distinctness [Morris,M]

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]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs

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The function of beliefs is to produce beliefs-that-p when p [Millikan]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions

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There must exist a general form of propositions, which are predictabe. It is: such and such is the case [Morris,M]

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]