Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'later work', 'Preface to Universal Characteristic' and 'The Trouble with Possible Worlds'

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10 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 2. Invocation to Philosophy

2118	All other human gifts can harm us, but not correct reasoning [Leibniz]

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 6. Deconstruction

6840	Derrida came to believe in the undeconstructability of justice, which cannot be relativised [Derrida, by Critchley]

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 6. Ockham's Razor

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Maybe Ockham's Razor is a purely aesthetic principle [Lycan]

15784

The Razor seems irrelevant for Meinongians, who allow absolutely everything to exist [Lycan]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 4. Impossible objects

15792

Maybe non-existent objects are sets of properties [Lycan]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / a. Nature of possible worlds

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Treating possible worlds as mental needs more actual mental events [Lycan]

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Possible worlds must be made of intensional objects like propositions or properties [Lycan]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / c. Worlds as propositions

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If 'worlds' are sentences, and possibility their consistency, consistency may rely on possibility [Lycan]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / c. A unified people

21936

A community must consist of singular persons, with nothing in common [Derrida, by Glendinning]

21937

Can there be democratic friendship without us all becoming identical? [Derrida, by Glendinning]