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All the ideas for 'Changes in Events and Changes in Things', 'A Plea for Substitutional Quantification' and 'Purple Haze'

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4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 4. Alethic Modal Logic

9470	Modal logic is not an extensional language [Parsons,C]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 4. Substitutional Quantification

9469	Substitutional existential quantifier may explain the existence of linguistic entities [Parsons,C]

9468	On the substitutional interpretation, '(∃x) Fx' is true iff a closed term 't' makes Ft true [Parsons,C]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / b. Types of fact

15201

That Queen Anne is dead is a 'general fact', not a fact about Queen Anne [Prior,AN]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / d. Explanatory gap

7876	Even if we identify pain with neural events, we can't explain why those neurons cause that feeling [Levine, by Papineau]

7877	Only phenomenal states have an explanatory gap; water is fully explained by H2O [Levine, by Papineau]

7878	Materialism won't explain phenomenal properties, because the latter aren't seen in causal roles [Papineau on Levine]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / e. Tensed (A) series

22899

'Thank goodness that's over' is not like 'thank goodness that happened on Friday' [Prior,AN]