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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'On the Nature of Moral Values' and 'Quine on Quantifying In'

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9 ideas

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth

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Science is sympathetic to truth as correspondence, since it depends on observation [Quine]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 1. Logical Form

12220

Is it the sentence-token or the sentence-type that has a logical form? [Fine,K]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 4. Substitutional Quantification

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Substitutional quantification is referential quantification over expressions [Fine,K]

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]

14. Science / C. Induction / 2. Aims of Induction

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More careful inductions gradually lead to the hypothetico-deductive method [Quine]

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]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / a. Nature of value

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Altruistic values concern other persons, and ceremonial values concern practices [Quine]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love

21751

Love seems to diminish with distance from oneself [Quine]