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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Disputed questions about truth' and 'Inexpressible Properties and Propositions'

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8 ideas

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth

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Truth is the conformity of being to intellect [Aquinas]

3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 3. Minimalist Truth

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Instances of minimal truth miss out propositions inexpressible in current English [Hofweber]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 4. Substitutional Quantification

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Quantification can't all be substitutional; some reference is obviously to objects [Hofweber]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / f. Primary being

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Being is basic to thought, and all other concepts are additions to being [Aquinas]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties

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Since properties have properties, there can be a typed or a type-free theory of them [Hofweber]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / a. Translation

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Holism says language can't be translated; the expressibility hypothesis says everything can [Hofweber]

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

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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

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