Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Sebastian Gardner, David Lewis and Jerry A. Fodor
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4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 4. Alethic Modal Logic
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For modality Lewis rejected boxes and diamonds, preferring worlds, and an index for the actual one [Lewis, by Stalnaker]
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4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 1. Set Theory
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Sets are mereological sums of the singletons of their members [Lewis, by Armstrong]
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We can build set theory on singletons: classes are then fusions of subclasses, membership is the singleton [Lewis]
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Mathematics reduces to set theory, which reduces, with some mereology, to the singleton function [Lewis]
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4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 2. Mechanics of Set Theory / b. Terminology of ST
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Classes divide into subclasses in many ways, but into members in only one way [Lewis]
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A subclass of a subclass is itself a subclass; a member of a member is not in general a member [Lewis]
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4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 3. Types of Set / b. Empty (Null) Set
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We needn't accept this speck of nothingness, this black hole in the fabric of Reality! [Lewis]
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We can accept the null set, but there is no null class of anything [Lewis]
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There are four main reasons for asserting that there is an empty set [Lewis]
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We can accept the null set, but not a null class, a class lacking members [Lewis]
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The null set plays the role of last resort, for class abstracts and for existence [Lewis]
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The null set is not a little speck of sheer nothingness, a black hole in Reality [Lewis]
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4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 3. Types of Set / c. Unit (Singleton) Sets
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If we don't understand the singleton, then we don't understand classes [Lewis]
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We can replace the membership relation with the member-singleton relation (plus mereology) [Lewis]
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If singleton membership is external, why is an object a member of one rather than another? [Lewis]
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Maybe singletons have a structure, of a thing and a lasso? [Lewis]
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What on earth is the relationship between a singleton and an element? [Lewis]
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Are all singletons exact intrinsic duplicates? [Lewis]
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4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / a. Axioms for sets
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Set theory has some unofficial axioms, generalisations about how to understand it [Lewis]
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Set theory reduces to a mereological theory with singletons as the only atoms [Lewis, by MacBride]
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4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 5. Conceptions of Set / a. Sets as existing
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If singletons are where their members are, then so are all sets [Lewis]
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A huge part of Reality is only accepted as existing if you have accepted set theory [Lewis]
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Set theory isn't innocent; it generates infinities from a single thing; but mathematics needs it [Lewis]
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4. Formal Logic / G. Formal Mereology / 1. Mereology
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Megethology is the result of adding plural quantification to mereology [Lewis]
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