Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Events and Their Names', 'The New Organon' and 'Foundations of Two-Dimensional Semantics'

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6 ideas

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events

8978	Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology [Bennett]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / a. Nominalism

16639

Only individual bodies exist [Bacon]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / c. Form as causal

16033

There are only individual bodies containing law-based powers, and the Forms are these laws [Bacon]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 2. Aim of Science

21950

Science must clear away the idols of the mind if they are ever going to find the truth [Bacon]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 10. Two-Dimensional Semantics

14739

'Water' is two-dimensionally inconstant, with different intensions in different worlds [Chalmers, by Sider]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata

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Facts are about the world, not in it, so they can't cause anything [Bennett]