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All the ideas for 'works', 'Introduction - Ontology' and 'talk'

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7 ideas

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 3. Levels of Reality

5500	Biologists see many organic levels, 'abstract' if seen from below, 'structural' if seen from above [Lycan]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 6. Identity between Objects

5494	'Lightning is electric discharge' and 'Phosphorus is Venus' are synthetic a posteriori identities [Lycan]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 2. Imagination

6901	Understanding is needed for imagination, just as much as the other way around [Betteridge]

17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 2. Machine Functionalism

5496	Functionalism has three linked levels: physical, functional, and mental [Lycan]

17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 5. Teleological Functionalism

5499	A mental state is a functional realisation of a brain state when it serves the purpose of the organism [Lycan]

19. Language / F. Communication / 4. Private Language

8478	Dewey argued long before Wittgenstein that there could not seriously be a private language [Dewey, by Orenstein]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / c. Purpose denied

5501	People are trying to explain biological teleology in naturalistic causal terms [Lycan]