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Ideas for 'The Gettier Problem', 'Our Knowledge of the External World' and 'The Logical Form of Action Sentences'

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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events

7771	We need 'events' to explain adverbs, which are adjectival predicates of events [Davidson, by Lycan]

8860	Language-learning is not good enough evidence for the existence of events [Yablo on Davidson]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / d. Logical atoms

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Atomic facts may be inferrable from others, but never from non-atomic facts [Russell]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / d. Negative facts

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A positive and negative fact have the same constituents; their difference is primitive [Russell]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / d. Commitment of theories

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If the best theory of adverbs refers to events, then our ontology should include events [Davidson, by Sider]