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All the ideas for 'Conditionals', 'Quaestiones de anima' and 'Commentary on Sentences'

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6 ideas

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / d. Form as unifier
16766 One thing needs a single thing to unite it; if there were two forms, something must unite them [Aquinas]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 13. Nominal Essence
16627 If you remove the accidents from a horse and a lion, the intellect can't tell them apart [Francis of Marchia]
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]