Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Matter and Memory', 'Many, but almost one' and 'The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding'

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7 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / c. Becoming

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Bergson was a rallying point, because he emphasised becomings and multiplicities [Bergson, by Deleuze]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / d. Vagueness as linguistic

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Semantic indecision explains vagueness (if we have precisifications to be undecided about) [Lewis]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / b. Cat and its tail

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If cats are vague, we deny that the many cats are one, or deny that the one cat is many [Lewis]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / e. Vague objects

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We have one cloud, but many possible boundaries and aggregates for it [Lewis]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

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Understanding is seeing coherent relationships in the relevant information [Kvanvig]

12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 4. Memory

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Bergson showed that memory is not after the event, but coexists with it [Bergson, by Deleuze]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / c. Principle of charity

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Basic to pragmatics is taking a message in a way that makes sense of it [Lewis]