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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Varieties of Reference' and 'Possible Worlds'

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10 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence

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Lewis's distinction of 'existing' from 'being actual' is Meinong's between 'existing' and 'subsisting' [Lycan on Lewis]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / d. Possible worlds actualism

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Lewis can't know possible worlds without first knowing what is possible or impossible [Lycan on Lewis]

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What are the ontological grounds for grouping possibilia into worlds? [Lycan on Lewis]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 6. Inference in Perception

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Experiences have no conceptual content [Evans, by Greco]

7643	We have far fewer colour concepts than we have discriminations of colour [Evans]

18. Thought / C. Content / 1. Content

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Some representational states, like perception, may be nonconceptual [Evans, by Schulte]

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 1. Concepts / a. Nature of concepts

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The Generality Constraint says if you can think a predicate you can apply it to anything [Evans]

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 3. Ontology of Concepts / b. Concepts as abilities

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Concepts have a 'Generality Constraint', that we must know how predicates apply to them [Evans, by Peacocke]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]