Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Identity and Spatio-Temporal Continuity', 'Personal Identity and Memory' and 'On the Nature of Moral Values'

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7 ideas

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth

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Science is sympathetic to truth as correspondence, since it depends on observation [Quine]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind

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'Ultimate sortals' cannot explain ontological categories [Westerhoff on Wiggins]

14. Science / C. Induction / 2. Aims of Induction

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More careful inductions gradually lead to the hypothetico-deductive method [Quine]

16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / a. Memory is Self

1389	If memory is the sole criterion of identity, we ought to use it for other people too [Shoemaker]

1390	Bodily identity is one criterion and memory another, for personal identity [Shoemaker, by PG]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / a. Nature of value

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Altruistic values concern other persons, and ceremonial values concern practices [Quine]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love

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Love seems to diminish with distance from oneself [Quine]