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Frank I 487
Russell/Evans: Cartesians: Thought: we only have a thought if the object really exists.
>Cartesianism, >Nonexistence, >Truth value.
I 487ff
Thoughts/EvansVsRussell/EvansVsHume: (with Davidson): it may be that you simply think you have a thought - even about yourself.
>Belief/Davidson, >Self-identification.


Gareth Evans(1982b): Self-Identification, in: Evans (1982a) The Varieties of Reference, ed. by John McDowell, Oxford/New York 1982, 204-266

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Russell IV 87/88
Idea/concept/Russell: ambiguous: in a certain sense we can say that blackness "is in our consciousness" as an idea is, so to speak, an object of thought.
Russell: Blackness must be an object here so that two people can think of it, or that we can think of it again.
>Objects of thought, >Objects of belief, >Mental objects.
Universals/Russell: therefore universals are not mere thoughts but objects of the act of thinking.
>Universals.

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