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All the ideas for 'Three theses about dispositions', 'The Strangest Man' and 'On the Source of Necessity'

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7 ideas

4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 3. Modal Logic Systems / g. System S4

15102

S4 says there must be some necessary truths (the actual ones, of which there is at least one) [Cameron]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity

15103

Blackburn fails to show that the necessary cannot be grounded in the contingent [Cameron]

17. Mind and Body / B. Behaviourism / 2. Potential Behaviour

7435	Dispositions are second-order properties, the property of having some property [Jackson/Pargetter/Prior, by Armstrong]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / d. Gravity

21236

Instead of gravitational force, we now have a pervasive gravitational field [Farmelo]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / d. Quantum mechanics

21235

The Schrödinger waves are just the maths of transforming energy values to positions [Farmelo]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / c. Particle properties

21234

Experiments show that fundamental particles of one type are identical [Farmelo]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / f. Eternalism

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The 'moving spotlight' theory makes one time privileged, while all times are on a par ontologically [Cameron]