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All the ideas for 'Identity over Time', 'The Problem of Consciousness' and 'Lecture on Applicability of Mathematics'

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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / b. Indispensability of mathematics

8732	It is spooky the way mathematics anticipates physics [Weinberg]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 1. Objects over Time

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If things change they become different - but then no one thing undergoes the change! [Gallois]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 4. Four-Dimensionalism

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4D: time is space-like; a thing is its history; past and future are real; or things extend in time [Gallois]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 6. Identity between Objects

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If two things are equal, each side involves a necessity, so the equality is necessary [Gallois]

17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 6. Mysterianism

7388	McGinn invites surrender, by saying it is hopeless trying to imagine conscious machines [Dennett on McGinn]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / b. Multiple realisability

3185	Multiple realisability rules out hidden essences and experts as the source of water- and gold-concepts [McGinn]