Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Space and Time', 'Counterfactual Dependence and Time's Arrow' and 'Intending'

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4 ideas

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / a. Nature of intentions
An intending is a judgement that the action is desirable [Davidson]
20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / c. Reducing intentions
Davidson gave up reductive accounts of intention, and said it was a primitive [Davidson, by Wilson/Schpall]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 5. Direction of causation
There are few traces of an event before it happens, but many afterwards [Lewis, by Horwich]
27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 6. Space-Time
Space alone, and time alone, will fade away, and only their union has an independent reality [Minkowski]