Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'An Argument for the Identity Theory', 'Herculaneum Papyrus' and 'The Barcan Formula and Metaphysics'

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7 ideas

4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 7. Barcan Formula

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The Barcan Formulas express how to combine modal operators with classical quantifiers [Simchen]

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The Barcan Formulas are orthodox, but clash with the attractive Actualist view [Simchen]

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BF implies that if W possibly had a child, then something is possibly W's child [Simchen]

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

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Serious Actualism says there are no facts at all about something which doesn't exist [Simchen]

17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 4. Causal Functionalism

7441	Experiences are defined by their causal role, and causal roles belong to physical states [Lewis]

7442	'Pain' contingently names the state that occupies the causal role of pain [Lewis]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

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Don't fear god or worry about death; the good is easily got and the terrible easily cured [Philodemus]