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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Goodbye Growing Block' and 'Quine on Quantifying In'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 2. Ancient Thought

1597	Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 1. Logical Form

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Is it the sentence-token or the sentence-type that has a logical form? [Fine,K]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 4. Substitutional Quantification

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Substitutional quantification is referential quantification over expressions [Fine,K]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 5. Modality from Actuality

3013	Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / c. Ultimate substances

1494	Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

1713	Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / f. Eternalism

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Eternalism says all times are equally real, and future and past objects and properties are real [Merricks]

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

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Growing block has a subjective present and a growing edge - but these could come apart [Merricks, by PG]

29. Religion / A. Polytheistic Religion / 2. Greek Polytheism

1742	Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius]