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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Examination of McTaggart's Philosophy' and 'Some Models for Implicature'

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10 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 2. Ancient Thought

1597	Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 4. Four-Dimensionalism

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Surely the past phases of a thing are not parts of the thing? [Broad]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 5. Modality from Actuality

3013	Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use

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Grice said patterns of use are often semantically irrelevant, because it is a pragmatic matter [Grice, by Glock]

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

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Grice's maxim of quality says do not assert what you believe to be false [Grice, by Magidor]

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Grice's maxim of manner requires one to be as brief as possible [Grice, by Magidor]

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Grice's maxim of quantity says be sufficiently informative [Grice, by Magidor]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / c. Ultimate substances

1494	Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

1713	Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle]

29. Religion / A. Polytheistic Religion / 2. Greek Polytheism

1742	Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius]