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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Philosophy of Mind (Encylopedia III)' and 'The Impossibility of Superdupervenience'

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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 3. Levels of Reality

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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]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 2. Sources of Free Will

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Freedom is produced by the activity of the mind, and is not intrinsically given [Hegel]

17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 1. Dualism

22039

Geist is distinct from nature, not as a substance, but because of its normativity [Hegel, by Pinkard]

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]