Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Problem of Possibilia' and 'The Scope and Language of Science'

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6 ideas

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 6. Mathematics as Set Theory / a. Mathematics is set theory

8463	Maths can be reduced to logic and set theory [Quine]

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

8461	The category of objects incorporates the old distinction of substances and their modes [Quine]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

9212	Possible states of affairs are not propositions; a proposition can't be a state of affairs! [Fine,K]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / a. Nature of possible worlds

9213	The actual world is a possible world, so we can't define possible worlds as 'what might have been' [Fine,K]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism

3061	Anaxarchus said that he was not even sure that he knew nothing [Anaxarchus, by Diog. Laertius]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 6. Conceptual Dualism

8462	A hallucination can, like an ague, be identified with its host; the ontology is physical, the idiom mental [Quine]