Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'On the Individuation of Attributes' and 'Thought: a very short introduction'

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11 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 12. Denial of Properties

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Because things can share attributes, we cannot individuate attributes clearly [Quine]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 5. Class Nominalism

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You only know an attribute if you know what things have it [Quine]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation

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No entity without identity (which requires a principle of individuation) [Quine]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 6. Identity between Objects

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Identity of physical objects is just being coextensive [Quine]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 3. Evidentialism / a. Evidence

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How we evaluate evidence depends on our background beliefs [Bayne]

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Clifford's dictum seems to block our beliefs in morality, politics and philosophy [Bayne]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind

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Physicalism correlates brain and mind, explains causation by thought, and makes nature continuous [Bayne]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 8. Human Thought

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Perception reveals what animals think, but humans can disengage thought from perception [Bayne]

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Some people centre space on themselves; others centre space on the earth [Bayne]

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 4. Language of Thought

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The alternative to a language of thought is map-like or diagram-like thought [Bayne]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 3. Deism

1558	Clearly the gods ignore human affairs, or they would have given us justice [Thrasymachus]