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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'talk' and 'Russell's Ontological Development'

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2. Reason / D. Definition / 12. Paraphrase

21699

Russell offered a paraphrase of definite description, to avoid the commitment to objects [Quine]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking

6900	A prior understanding of beauty is needed to assert that the Form of the Beautiful is beautiful [Westaway]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts

6956	At what point does an object become 'whole'? [Westaway]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 3. Internal or External / a. Pro-internalism

604	Knowledge is mind and knowing 'cohabiting' [Lycophron, by Aristotle]

17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 7. Chinese Room

7335	The Chinese Room should be able to ask itself questions in Mandarin [Westaway]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / a. Sentence meaning

21700

Taking sentences as the unit of meaning makes useful paraphrasing possible [Quine]

21701

Knowing a word is knowing the meanings of sentences which contain it [Quine]