Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Brains and Behaviour', 'Events' and 'Schopenhauer'

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10 ideas

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events

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Some events involve no change; they must, because causal histories involve unchanges [Lewis]

15561

The events that suit semantics may not be the events that suit causation [Lewis]

15565

Events have inbuilt essences, as necessary conditions for their occurrence [Lewis]

15566

Events are classes, and so there is a mereology of their parts [Lewis]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events

15564

An event is a property of a unique space-time region [Lewis]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 10. Properties as Predicates

15563

Properties are very abundant (unlike universals), and are used for semantics and higher-order variables [Lewis]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism

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Fichte, Schelling and Hegel rejected transcendental idealism [Lewis,PB]

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Fichte, Hegel and Schelling developed versions of Absolute Idealism [Lewis,PB]

17. Mind and Body / B. Behaviourism / 4. Behaviourism Critique

3460	Superactors and superspartans count against behaviourism [Putnam, by Searle]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation

15562

Causation is a general relation derived from instances of causal dependence [Lewis]