Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works', 'talk' and 'Scientific Thought'

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7 ideas

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

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A thing is simply a long event, linked by qualities, and spatio-temporal unity [Broad]

11842

If short-lived happenings like car crashes are 'events', why not long-lived events like Dover Cliffs? [Broad]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

4366	We can't accept Aristotle's naturalism about persons, because it is normative and unscientific [Williams,B, by Hursthouse]

24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 5. Culture

21432

Culture is the struggle to agree what is normal [Gibson,A]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / g. Growing block

8160	The present and past exist, but the future does not [Broad, by Dummett]

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We could say present and past exist, but not future, so that each event adds to the total history [Broad]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / d. Time series

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We imagine the present as a spotlight, moving across events from past to future [Broad]