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All the ideas for 'Commentary on 'De Anima'', 'Scientific Thought' and 'Introduction to Zermelo's 1930 paper'

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4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / a. Axioms for sets

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The first-order ZF axiomatisation is highly non-categorical [Hallett,M]

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Non-categoricity reveals a sort of incompleteness, with sets existing that the axioms don't reveal [Hallett,M]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 7. Natural Sets

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Zermelo allows ur-elements, to enable the widespread application of set-theory [Hallett,M]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / g. Continuum Hypothesis

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The General Continuum Hypothesis and its negation are both consistent with ZF [Hallett,M]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 4. Four-Dimensionalism

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A thing is simply a long event, linked by qualities, and spatio-temporal unity [Broad]

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If short-lived happenings like car crashes are 'events', why not long-lived events like Dover Cliffs? [Broad]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / e. Death

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The soul conserves the body, as we see by its dissolution when the soul leaves [Toletus]

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

8160	The present and past exist, but the future does not [Broad, by Dummett]

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We could say present and past exist, but not future, so that each event adds to the total history [Broad]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / d. Time series

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We imagine the present as a spotlight, moving across events from past to future [Broad]