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All the ideas for 'reports', 'The Logical Syntax of Language' and 'Truly Understood'

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9 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / B. Logical Consequence / 1. Logical Consequence

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Carnap defined consequence by contradiction, but this is unintuitive and changes with substitution [Tarski on Carnap]

5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 4. Logic by Convention

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Each person is free to build their own logic, just by specifying a syntax [Carnap]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity

3016	Even the gods cannot strive against necessity [Pittacus, by Diog. Laertius]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 6. Judgement / a. Nature of Judgement

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Concepts are distinguished by roles in judgement, and are thus tied to rationality [Peacocke]

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 3. Ontology of Concepts / c. Fregean concepts

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A sense is individuated by the conditions for reference [Peacocke]

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Fregean concepts have their essence fixed by reference-conditions [Peacocke]

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 4. Structure of Concepts / a. Conceptual structure

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Concepts have distinctive reasons and norms [Peacocke]

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 4. Structure of Concepts / b. Analysis of concepts

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Any explanation of a concept must involve reference and truth [Peacocke]

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

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Encountering novel sentences shows conclusively that meaning must be compositional [Peacocke]