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All the ideas for 'Deflationary Metaontology of Thomasson', 'Zettel' and 'Scientific Thought'

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10 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

2626	A philosopher is outside any community of ideas [Wittgenstein]

5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 6. Paradoxes in Language / a. The Liar paradox

6569	'This sentence is false' sends us in a looping search for its proposition [Wittgenstein, by Fogelin]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind

14082

No sortal could ever exactly pin down which set of particles count as this 'cup' [Schaffer,J]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 4. Four-Dimensionalism

11842

If short-lived happenings like car crashes are 'events', why not long-lived events like Dover Cliffs? [Broad]

14759

A thing is simply a long event, linked by qualities, and spatio-temporal unity [Broad]

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

14081

Identities can be true despite indeterminate reference, if true under all interpretations [Schaffer,J]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 2. Causal Justification

3790	Causes of beliefs are irrelevant to their contents [Wittgenstein]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / g. Growing block

8160	The present and past exist, but the future does not [Broad, by Dummett]

14609

We could say present and past exist, but not future, so that each event adds to the total history [Broad]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / d. Time series

22933

We imagine the present as a spotlight, moving across events from past to future [Broad]