Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Varieties of Necessity', 'On the Moral and Legal State of Abortion' and 'Nominalism and Realism'

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5 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 2. Need for Universals

4032	The problem of universals is how many particulars can all be of the same 'type' [Armstrong]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity

9216	Each area of enquiry, and its source, has its own distinctive type of necessity [Fine,K]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 7. Testimony

9214	Unsupported testimony may still be believable [Fine,K]

16. Persons / A. Concept of a Person / 1. Existence of Persons

20618

Persons must be conscious, reasoning, motivated, communicative, self-aware [Warren, by Tuckness/Wolf]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / a. Scientific essentialism

9215	Causation is easier to disrupt than logic, so metaphysics is part of nature, not vice versa [Fine,K]