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Ideas for 'The Evolution of Logic', 'Human Personality' and 'How Things Persist'

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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / d. Humean supervenience

16211	A homogeneous rotating disc should be undetectable according to Humean supervenience [Hawley]
	Full Idea: Imagine a perfectly homogeneous non-atomistic disc. A record of all the non-relational information about the world at that moment will not reveal whether the disc is rotating about a vertical axis through. This tells against Humean supervenience.
	From: Katherine Hawley (How Things Persist [2001], 3.2)
	A reaction: [Armstrong 1980 originated this, and it is famously discussed by Kripke in lectures] There will, of course, be dispositions present because of the rotation, but Lewis excludes any such modal truths.

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 8. Stuff / a. Pure stuff

13488	Mass words do not have plurals, or numerical adjectives, or use 'fewer' [Hart,WD]
	Full Idea: Jespersen calls a noun a mass word when it has no plural, does not take numerical adjectives, and does not take 'fewer'.
	From: William D. Hart (The Evolution of Logic [2010], 3)
	A reaction: Jespersen was a great linguistics expert.