Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works', 'Farewell to Reality: fairytale physics' and 'Demonstratives'

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6 ideas

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 10. Two-Dimensional Semantics

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Indexicals have a 'character' (the standing meaning), and a 'content' (truth-conditions for one context) [Kaplan, by Macià/Garcia-Carpentiro]

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'Content' gives the standard modal profile, and 'character' gives rules for a context [Kaplan, by Schroeter]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

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Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / b. Fields

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A 'field' is a property with a magnitude, distributed across all of space and time [Baggott]

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Fields can be 'scalar', or 'vector', or 'tensor', or 'spinor' [Baggott]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / b. Standard model

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The current standard model requires 61 particles [Baggott]