Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, Richard T.W. Arthur and Averroes (Ibn Rushd)

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4 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing

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Prime matter is halfway between non-existence and existence [Averroes]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

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Early modern possibility is what occurs sometime; for Leibniz, it is what is not contradictory [Arthur,R]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / j. Explanations by reduction

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Six reduction levels: groups, lives, cells, molecules, atoms, particles [Putnam/Oppenheim, by Watson]

17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 4. Occasionalism

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Occasionalism contradicts the Eucharist, which needs genuine changes of substance [Arthur,R]