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All the ideas for 'works', 'Intro to 'Essays on Actions and Events'' and 'In Defence of Convention T'

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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 5. Causal Argument

6383	Cause unites our picture of the universe; without it, mental and physical will separate [Davidson]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 5. Fregean Semantics

7331	A theory of meaning comes down to translating sentences into Fregean symbolic logic [Davidson, by Macey]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / d. Weakness of will

6385	The causally strongest reason may not be the reason the actor judges to be best [Davidson]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / a. Practical reason

6384	The notion of cause is essential to acting for reasons, intentions, agency, akrasia, and free will [Davidson]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

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Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche]