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All the ideas for 'The Intrinsic Quality of Experience', 'Transworld Heir Lines' and 'Popular Scientific Lectures'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 2. Positivism

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Laws of nature are just records of regularities and correlations, with concepts to make recording them easier [Mach, by Harré]

5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 1. Ontology of Logic

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Logicians like their entities to exhibit a maximum degree of purity [Kaplan]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 7. Substratum

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Models nicely separate particulars from their clothing, and logicians often accept that metaphysically [Kaplan]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / a. Transworld identity

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The simplest solution to transworld identification is to adopt bare particulars [Kaplan]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / c. Counterparts

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Essence is a transworld heir line, rather than a collection of properties [Kaplan]

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Unusual people may have no counterparts, or several [Kaplan]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 5. Qualia / b. Qualia and intentionality

8130	Qualities of experience are just representational aspects of experience ('Representationalism') [Harman, by Burge]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 8. Synonymy

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Sentences might have the same sense when logically equivalent - or never have the same sense [Kaplan]