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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'on Goodman's 'Ways of Worldmaking'' and 'Truth and Meaning'

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7 ideas

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

7332	There is a huge range of sentences of which we do not know the logical form [Davidson]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism

18438

Every worldly event, without exception, is a redistribution of microphysical states [Quine]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 4. Compositionality

7772	Compositionality explains how long sentences work, and truth conditions are the main compositional feature [Davidson, by Lycan]

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

7327	Davidson thinks Frege lacks an account of how words create sentence-meaning [Davidson, by Miller,A]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 9. Indexical Semantics

7769	You can state truth-conditions for "I am sick now" by relativising it to a speaker at a time [Davidson, by Lycan]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / b. Indeterminate translation

6179	Should we assume translation to define truth, or the other way around? [Blackburn on Davidson]

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]