Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Menedemus, PG and David Lewis
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism
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Anti-realists see the world as imaginary, or lacking joints, or beyond reference, or beyond truth [Lewis]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
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Materialism is (roughly) that two worlds cannot differ without differing physically [Lewis]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 7. Fictionalism
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Abstractions may well be verbal fictions, in which we ignore some features of an object [Lewis]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 9. States of Affairs
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How do things combine to make states of affairs? Constituents can repeat, and fail to combine [Lewis]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / d. Vagueness as linguistic
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Semantic vagueness involves alternative and equal precisifications of the language [Lewis]
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Vagueness is semantic indecision: we haven't settled quite what our words are meant to express [Lewis]
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Whether or not France is hexagonal depends on your standards of precision [Lewis]
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Semantic indecision explains vagueness (if we have precisifications to be undecided about) [Lewis]
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