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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Les quaestiones de anima (lectures on the soul)' and 'Neutral Relations'

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8 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations
14219 Language imposes a direction on a road which is not really part of the road [Fine,K]
14217 The 'standard' view of relations is that they hold of several objects in a given order [Fine,K]
14216 The 'positionalist' view of relations says the number of places is fixed, but not the order [Fine,K]
14218 A block on top of another contains one relation, not both 'on top of' and 'beneath' [Fine,K]
14220 Explain biased relations as orderings of the unbiased, or the unbiased as permutation classes of the biased? [Fine,K]
17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind
16618 Intellectual and moral states, and even the soul itself, depend on prime matter for their existence [Blasius, by Pasnau]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature
1748 Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]
27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution
5989 Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]