Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Modes of Extension: comment on Fine' and 'Lewis's Programme'

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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 9. Counterfactuals

8431	Problems with Goodman's view of counterfactuals led to a radical approach from Stalnaker and Lewis [Horwich]

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

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

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 7. Abstracta by Equivalence

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Any equivalence relation among similar things allows the creation of an abstractum [Simons]

18884

Abstraction is usually seen as producing universals and numbers, but it can do more [Simons]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / c. Counterfactual causation

8432	Analyse counterfactuals using causation, not the other way around [Horwich]