Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Possible Worlds', 'An American Indian model of the Universe' and 'Identity over Time'

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9 ideas

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

15789

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

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 1. Objects over Time

16025

If things change they become different - but then no one thing undergoes the change! [Gallois]

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

16026

4D: time is space-like; a thing is its history; past and future are real; or things extend in time [Gallois]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 6. Identity between Objects

16027

If two things are equal, each side involves a necessity, so the equality is necessary [Gallois]

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

15790

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

15791

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

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 5. Language Relativism

3916	Hopi consistently prefers verbs and events to nouns and things [Whorf]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 4. Paradigm

3917	Scientific thought is essentially a specialised part of Indo-European languages [Whorf]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / e. Tensed (A) series

3915	The Hopi have no concept of time as something flowing from past to future [Whorf]