Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Possible Worlds', 'The Second Sex' and 'Sentences'

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7 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]

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations

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The single imagined 'interval' between things only exists in the intellect [Auriol]

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]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 12. Feminism

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One is not born, but rather becomes a woman [Beauvoir]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / b. Prime matter

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Prime matter lacks essence, but is only potentially and indeterminately a physical thing [Auriol]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 4. Divine Contradictions

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God can do anything non-contradictory, as making straightness with no line, or lightness with no parts [Auriol]