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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Free Will as Involving Determinism' and 'In Defence of Convention T'

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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism

22371

Determinism threatens free will if actions can be causally traced to external factors [Foot]

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 / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / b. Intellectualism

22372

Not all actions need motives, but it is irrational to perform troublesome actions with no motive [Foot]

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 / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character

22373

People can act out of vanity without being vain, or even vain about this kind of thing [Foot]