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All the ideas for '', 'Rationality and Goodness' and 'Law, Pragmatism and Democracy'

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5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 1. Overview of Logic
11211 If a sound conclusion comes from two errors that cancel out, the path of the argument must matter [Rumfitt]
5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / a. Logical connectives
11210 Standardly 'and' and 'but' are held to have the same sense by having the same truth table [Rumfitt]
11212 The sense of a connective comes from primitively obvious rules of inference [Rumfitt]
19. Language / F. Communication / 3. Denial
11214 We learn 'not' along with affirmation, by learning to either affirm or deny a sentence [Rumfitt]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / d. Virtue theory critique
23692 Good and bad are a matter of actions, not of internal dispositions [Foot]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 5. Democracy / a. Nature of democracy
21131 Democracy is competition for support of the people, guided by self-interest on all sides [Posner]