Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Semantics for Propositional Attitudes' and 'Events'

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10 ideas

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events

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Events have inbuilt essences, as necessary conditions for their occurrence [Lewis]

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Events are classes, and so there is a mereology of their parts [Lewis]

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Some events involve no change; they must, because causal histories involve unchanges [Lewis]

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The events that suit semantics may not be the events that suit causation [Lewis]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events

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An event is a property of a unique space-time region [Lewis]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment

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Our commitments are to an 'ontology', but also to an 'ideology', or conceptual system [Hintikka]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 10. Properties as Predicates

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Properties are very abundant (unlike universals), and are used for semantics and higher-order variables [Lewis]

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

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Commitment to possible worlds is part of our ideology, not part of our ontology [Hintikka]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

468	Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation

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Causation is a general relation derived from instances of causal dependence [Lewis]