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All the ideas for 'Scientific Thought', 'Philosophical Remarks' and 'A Problem about Substitutional Quantification?'

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9 ideas

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

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The substitutional quantifier is not in competition with the standard interpretation [Kripke, by Marcus (Barcan)]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 3. Objects in Thought

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An 'object' is just what can be referred to without possible non-existence [Wittgenstein]

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]

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

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 2. Meaning as Mental

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Language pictures the essence of the world [Wittgenstein]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification

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You can't believe it if you can't imagine a verification for it [Wittgenstein]

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]