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All the ideas for 'Letters to Edward Stillingfleet', 'Postscripts on supervenience' and 'A Note on the entscheidungsproblem'

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5. Theory of Logic / K. Features of Logics / 7. Decidability

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Validity is provable, but invalidity isn't, because the model is infinite [Church, by McGee]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience

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Supervenience is not a dependence relation, on the lines of causal, mereological or semantic dependence [Kim]

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Supervenience is just a 'surface' relation of pattern covariation, which still needs deeper explanation [Kim]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences

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Every individual thing which exists has an essence, which is its internal constitution [Locke]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty

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If it is knowledge, it is certain; if it isn't certain, it isn't knowledge [Locke]