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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Grounding: an opinionated introduction' and 'Scientific Thought'

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics

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Using modal logic, philosophers tried to handle all metaphysics in modal terms [Correia/Schnieder]

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 2. Sufficient Reason

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Why do rationalists accept Sufficient Reason, when it denies the existence of fundamental facts? [Correia/Schnieder]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / a. Nature of grounding

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Is existential dependence by grounding, or do grounding claims arise from existential dependence? [Correia/Schnieder]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / c. Grounding and explanation

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Grounding is metaphysical and explanation epistemic, so keep them apart [Correia/Schnieder]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / a. Facts

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The identity of two facts may depend on how 'fine-grained' we think facts are [Correia/Schnieder]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 4. Four-Dimensionalism

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A thing is simply a long event, linked by qualities, and spatio-temporal unity [Broad]

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If short-lived happenings like car crashes are 'events', why not long-lived events like Dover Cliffs? [Broad]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / d. Weakness of will

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Some reasonings are stronger than we are [Philolaus]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / g. Growing block

8160	The present and past exist, but the future does not [Broad, by Dummett]

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We could say present and past exist, but not future, so that each event adds to the total history [Broad]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / d. Time series

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We imagine the present as a spotlight, moving across events from past to future [Broad]