Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Two Kinds of Possibility' and 'talk'

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8 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking
6900 A prior understanding of beauty is needed to assert that the Form of the Beautiful is beautiful [Westaway]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts
6956 At what point does an object become 'whole'? [Westaway]
10. Modality / A. Necessity / 1. Types of Modality
12205 There are two families of modal notions, metaphysical and epistemic, of equal strength [Edgington]
10. Modality / A. Necessity / 5. Metaphysical Necessity
12207 Metaphysical possibility is discovered empirically, and is contrained by nature [Edgington]
10. Modality / A. Necessity / 6. Logical Necessity
12206 Broadly logical necessity (i.e. not necessarily formal logical necessity) is an epistemic notion [Edgington]
12208 An argument is only valid if it is epistemically (a priori) necessary [Edgington]
17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 7. Chinese Room
7335 The Chinese Room should be able to ask itself questions in Mandarin [Westaway]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality
468 Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]