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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Of Human Freedom' and 'Introduction - Ontology'

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9 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / c. Becoming
22076 Being is only perceptible to itself as becoming [Schelling]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 3. Levels of Reality
5500 Biologists see many organic levels, 'abstract' if seen from below, 'structural' if seen from above [Lycan]
9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 6. Identity between Objects
5494 'Lightning is electric discharge' and 'Phosphorus is Venus' are synthetic a posteriori identities [Lycan]
11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism
22074 We must show that the whole of nature, because it is effective, is grounded in freedom [Schelling]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 2. Sources of Free Will
22075 Only idealism has given us the genuine concept of freedom [Schelling]
17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 2. Machine Functionalism
5496 Functionalism has three linked levels: physical, functional, and mental [Lycan]
17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 5. Teleological Functionalism
5499 A mental state is a functional realisation of a brain state when it serves the purpose of the organism [Lycan]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality
468 Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / c. Purpose denied
5501 People are trying to explain biological teleology in naturalistic causal terms [Lycan]