Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Privileged Present: A-Theory', 'Parthood and Identity across Time' and 'Substitutional Classes and Relations'

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7 ideas

2. Reason / D. Definition / 7. Contextual Definition

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Any linguistic expression may lack meaning when taken out of context [Russell]

2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 8. Category Mistake / a. Category mistakes

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'The number one is bald' or 'the number one is fond of cream cheese' are meaningless [Russell]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / p. Axiom of Reducibility

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Axiom of Reducibility: there is always a function of the lowest possible order in a given level [Russell, by Bostock]

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

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There is no complexity without relations, so no propositions, and no truth [Russell]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 5. Temporal Parts

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Temporal parts is a crazy doctrine, because it entails constantly creating stuff ex nihilo [Thomson, by Koslicki]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / g. Growing block

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Neither 'moving spotlight' nor 'growing block' views explain why we care what is present or past [Zimmerman,DW]

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

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A-theorists, unlike B-theorists, believe some sort of objective distinction between past, present and future [Zimmerman,DW]