Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Lynch,MP/Glasgow,JM, C.J. Thomae and Michael Esfeld

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6 ideas

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 3. Levels of Reality
16062 A necessary relation between fact-levels seems to be a further irreducible fact [Lynch/Glasgow]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience
16061 If some facts 'logically supervene' on some others, they just redescribe them, adding nothing [Lynch/Glasgow]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
16060 Nonreductive materialism says upper 'levels' depend on lower, but don't 'reduce' [Lynch/Glasgow]
16064 The hallmark of physicalism is that each causal power has a base causal power under it [Lynch/Glasgow]
18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 8. Abstractionism Critique
8638 Thomae's idea of abstract from peculiarities gives a general concept, and leaves the peculiarities [Frege on Thomae]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / g. Time's arrow
13440 Causation is the power of one property to produce another, and this gives time its direction [Esfeld]