Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Individuation of Events', 'Self-Reliance' and 'talk'

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7 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason
6558 A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds [Emerson]
5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 2. Domain of Quantification
18914 Davidson controversially proposed to quantify over events [Davidson, by Engelbretsen]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / b. Events as primitive
9843 You can't identify events by causes and effects, as the event needs to be known first [Dummett on Davidson]
14602 Events can only be individuated causally [Davidson, by Schaffer,J]
14004 We need events for action statements, causal statements, explanation, mind-and-body, and adverbs [Davidson, by Bourne]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events
8278 The claim that events are individuated by their causal relations to other events is circular [Lowe on Davidson]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / a. Consciousness
6668 If the present does not exist, then consciousness must be memory of the immediate past [Marshall]