Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Purifications (frags)', 'Justice as fairness: Political not Metaphysical' and 'Metaphysics: a very short introduction'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

5 ideas

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / a. Substance

18617

Substances, unlike aggregates, can survive a change of parts [Mumford]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 3. Combinatorial possibility

18618

Maybe possibilities are recombinations of the existing elements of reality [Mumford]

18619

Combinatorial possibility has to allow all elements to be combinable, which seems unlikely [Mumford]

18620

Combinatorial possibility relies on what actually exists (even over time), but there could be more [Mumford]

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 4. Unfairness

22406

The maximisation of happiness must be done fairly [Rawls, by Smart]