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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'talk' and 'Postscripts on supervenience'

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5 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason

1403	A rational donkey would starve to death between two totally identical piles of hay [Buridan, by PG]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience

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Supervenience is not a dependence relation, on the lines of causal, mereological or semantic dependence [Kim]

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Supervenience is just a 'surface' relation of pattern covariation, which still needs deeper explanation [Kim]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / d. Location of mind

5987	Alcmaeon was the first to say the brain is central to thinking [Alcmaeon, by Staden, von]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / b. Soul

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Soul must be immortal, since it continually moves, like the heavens [Alcmaeon, by Aristotle]