Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Possible Worlds', 'Episteme and Logos in later Plato' and 'Counterfactual Dependence and Time's Arrow'

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6 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 2. Logos

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The logos enables us to track one particular among a network of objects [Nehamas]

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A logos may be short, but it contains reference to the whole domain of the object [Nehamas]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence

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Lewis's distinction of 'existing' from 'being actual' is Meinong's between 'existing' and 'subsisting' [Lycan on Lewis]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / d. Possible worlds actualism

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Lewis can't know possible worlds without first knowing what is possible or impossible [Lycan on Lewis]

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What are the ontological grounds for grouping possibilia into worlds? [Lycan on Lewis]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 5. Direction of causation

8433	There are few traces of an event before it happens, but many afterwards [Lewis, by Horwich]