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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Logical Form of Action Sentences' and 'Against Euthanasia'

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6 ideas

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events
We need 'events' to explain adverbs, which are adjectival predicates of events [Davidson, by Lycan]
Language-learning is not good enough evidence for the existence of events [Yablo on Davidson]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / d. Commitment of theories
If the best theory of adverbs refers to events, then our ontology should include events [Davidson, by Sider]
25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 2. Euthanasia
People will volunteer for euthanasia because they think other people want them dead [Kamisar]
We only allow voluntary euthanasia to someone who is both sane and crazed by pain [Kamisar]
28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 3. Deism
Clearly the gods ignore human affairs, or they would have given us justice [Thrasymachus]