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Ideas for 'Truth and the Past' and 'Naming and Necessity lectures'

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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / f. Eternalism

8197	Maybe past (which affects us) and future (which we can affect) are both real [Dummett]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / k. Temporal truths

8196	The present cannot exist alone as a mere boundary; past and future truths are rendered meaningless [Dummett]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 5. Species

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Tigers may lack all the properties we originally used to identify them [Kripke]

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The original concept of 'cat' comes from paradigmatic instances [Kripke]

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'Tiger' designates a species, and merely looking like the species is not enough [Kripke]