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All the ideas for 'Conditionals', 'works' and 'Personal Identity'

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5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 2. Domain of Quantification

17743

De Morgan introduced a 'universe of discourse', to replace Boole's universe of 'all things' [De Morgan, by Walicki]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / a. Conditionals

13768

Validity can preserve certainty in mathematics, but conditionals about contingents are another matter [Edgington]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / b. Types of conditional

13770

There are many different conditional mental states, and different conditional speech acts [Edgington]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / c. Truth-function conditionals

13764

Are conditionals truth-functional - do the truth values of A and B determine the truth value of 'If A, B'? [Edgington]

13765

'If A,B' must entail ¬(A & ¬B); otherwise we could have A true, B false, and If A,B true, invalidating modus ponens [Edgington]

16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 5. Self as Associations

3539	Personal identity is just causally related mental states [Parfit, by Maslin]

16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / b. Self as mental continuity

1393	One of my future selves will not necessarily be me [Parfit]

16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 4. Split Consciousness

1392	If we split like amoeba, we would be two people, neither of them being us [Parfit]

16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 5. Concerns of the Self

1391	Concern for our own lives isn't the source of belief in identity, it is the result of it [Parfit]