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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Presupposition and Conversational Implicature' and 'Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion'

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6 ideas

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / f. Pragmatics of conditionals

10990

Conditionals are truth-functional, but unassertable in tricky cases? [Grice, by Read]

19. Language / F. Communication / 5. Pragmatics / b. Implicature

10991

Key conversational maxims are 'quality' (assert truth) and 'quantity' (leave nothing out) [Grice, by Read]

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / b. Education principles

13304

Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / d. Time as measure

20820

Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / a. Christianity

21798

To universalise 'give everything to the poor' leads to absurdity [Hegel]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / a. Immortality

21797

Immortality does not come at a later time, but when pure knowing Spirit fully grasps the universal [Hegel]