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All the ideas for 'Presentism and Properties', 'Abstract of 'The Fourfold Root'' and 'Intro to Non-Classical Logic (1st ed)'

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34 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 2. Sufficient Reason
4187 'There is nothing without a reason why it should be rather than not be' (a generalisation of 'Why?') [Schopenhauer]
4. Formal Logic / E. Nonclassical Logics / 6. Free Logic
9672 Free logic is one of the few first-order non-classical logics [Priest,G]
4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 2. Mechanics of Set Theory / a. Symbols of ST
9697 X1 x X2 x X3... x Xn indicates the 'cartesian product' of those sets [Priest,G]
9685 <a,b&62; is a set whose members occur in the order shown [Priest,G]
9675 a ∈ X says a is an object in set X; a ∉ X says a is not in X [Priest,G]
9674 {x; A(x)} is a set of objects satisfying the condition A(x) [Priest,G]
9673 {a1, a2, ...an} indicates that a set comprising just those objects [Priest,G]
9677 Φ indicates the empty set, which has no members [Priest,G]
9676 {a} is the 'singleton' set of a (not the object a itself) [Priest,G]
9679 X⊂Y means set X is a 'proper subset' of set Y [Priest,G]
9678 X⊆Y means set X is a 'subset' of set Y [Priest,G]
9681 X = Y means the set X equals the set Y [Priest,G]
9683 X ∩ Y indicates the 'intersection' of sets X and Y, the objects which are in both sets [Priest,G]
9682 X∪Y indicates the 'union' of all the things in sets X and Y [Priest,G]
9684 Y - X is the 'relative complement' of X with respect to Y; the things in Y that are not in X [Priest,G]
4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 2. Mechanics of Set Theory / b. Terminology of ST
9694 The 'relative complement' is things in the second set not in the first [Priest,G]
9693 The 'intersection' of two sets is a set of the things that are in both sets [Priest,G]
9692 The 'union' of two sets is a set containing all the things in either of the sets [Priest,G]
9698 The 'induction clause' says complex formulas retain the properties of their basic formulas [Priest,G]
9688 A 'singleton' is a set with only one member [Priest,G]
9687 A 'member' of a set is one of the objects in the set [Priest,G]
9695 An 'ordered pair' (or ordered n-tuple) is a set with its members in a particular order [Priest,G]
9696 A 'cartesian product' of sets is the set of all the n-tuples with one member in each of the sets [Priest,G]
9686 A 'set' is a collection of objects [Priest,G]
9689 The 'empty set' or 'null set' has no members [Priest,G]
9690 A set is a 'subset' of another set if all of its members are in that set [Priest,G]
9691 A 'proper subset' is smaller than the containing set [Priest,G]
4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 2. Mechanics of Set Theory / c. Basic theorems of ST
9680 The empty set Φ is a subset of every set (including itself) [Priest,G]
10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity
4192 All necessity arises from causation, which is conditioned; there is no absolute or unconditioned necessity [Schopenhauer]
11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding
4190 All understanding is an immediate apprehension of the causal relation [Schopenhauer]
16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 2. Knowing the Self
4191 What we know in ourselves is not a knower but a will [Schopenhauer]
16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 3. Reference of 'I'
21368 The knot of the world is the use of 'I' to refer to both willing and knowing [Schopenhauer]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / b. Relative time
4189 Time may be defined as the possibility of mutually exclusive conditions of the same thing [Schopenhauer]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / h. Presentism
14409 I am a presentist, and all language and common sense supports my view [Bigelow]