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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Logical Form of Action Sentences' and 'On 'Physics''

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7 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence

16664

Everything that exists is either a substance or an accident [Albert of Saxony]

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

7771	We need 'events' to explain adverbs, which are adjectival predicates of events [Davidson, by Lycan]

8860	Language-learning is not good enough evidence for the existence of events [Yablo on Davidson]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / d. Commitment of theories

15002

If the best theory of adverbs refers to events, then our ontology should include events [Davidson, by Sider]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 6. Successive Things

16703

God could make a successive thing so that previous parts cease to exist [Albert of Saxony]

16699

Successive entities just need parts to succeed one another, without their existence [Albert of Saxony]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention

1556	By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]