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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Prescriptivism' and 'Why Propositions Aren't Truth-Supporting Circumstance'

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5 ideas

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 2. Semantics

13965

Semantics as theory of meaning and semantics as truth-based logical consequence are very different [Soames]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 6. Truth-Conditions Semantics

13964

Semantic content is a proposition made of sentence constituents (not some set of circumstances) [Soames]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / i. Prescriptivism

2854	Prescriptivism says 'ought' without commitment to act is insincere, or weakly used [Hooker,B]

23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 1. Ethical Egoism

3031	The greatest good is not the achievement of desire, but to desire what is proper [Menedemus, by Diog. Laertius]

23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 2. Golden Rule

2856	Universal moral judgements imply the Golden Rule ('do as you would be done by') [Hooker,B]