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All the ideas for 'Possible Worlds', 'Moral Luck' and 'Il Saggiatore ('The Assayer')'

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8 ideas

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]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / d. Secondary qualities

7401	Heat and colour don't exist, so cannot mislead about the external world [Galileo, by Tuck]

5454	Tastes, odours and colours only reside in consciousness, and would disappear with creatures [Galileo]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / i. Explanations by mechanism

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Galileo introduced geometrico-mechanical explanation, based on Archimedes [Galileo, by Machamer/Darden/Craver]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / i. Moral luck

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If all that matters in morality is motive and intention, that makes moral luck irrelevant [Williams,B]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 4. Mathematical Nature

3645	To understand the universe mathematics is essential [Galileo]