Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Lynch,MP/Glasgow,JM, Jonathan Schofield and Fabrice Correia

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5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / a. Logical connectives
16974 The nature of each logical concept is given by a collection of inference rules [Correia]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 3. Levels of Reality
16062 A necessary relation between fact-levels seems to be a further irreducible fact [Lynch/Glasgow]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience
16061 If some facts 'logically supervene' on some others, they just redescribe them, adding nothing [Lynch/Glasgow]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
16060 Nonreductive materialism says upper 'levels' depend on lower, but don't 'reduce' [Lynch/Glasgow]
16064 The hallmark of physicalism is that each causal power has a base causal power under it [Lynch/Glasgow]
10. Modality / A. Necessity / 6. Logical Necessity
16973 Explain logical necessity by logical consequence, or the other way around? [Correia]
14. Science / C. Induction / 5. Paradoxes of Induction / b. Raven paradox
7006 Observing irrelevant items supports both 'all x are y' and 'all x are non-y', revealing its absurdity [Schofield,J]