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All the ideas for 'Intro to 'Modality and Tense'', 'The Logical Syntax of Language' and 'The Elements of Law'

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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / b. Seventeenth century philosophy
7396 Hobbes created English-language philosophy [Hobbes, by Tuck]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy
9208 Philosophers with a new concept are like children with a new toy [Fine,K]
5. Theory of Logic / B. Logical Consequence / 1. Logical Consequence
13342 Carnap defined consequence by contradiction, but this is unintuitive and changes with substitution [Tarski on Carnap]
5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 4. Logic by Convention
13251 Each person is free to build their own logic, just by specifying a syntax [Carnap]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 7. Abstract/Concrete / a. Abstract/concrete
9210 Possible objects are abstract; actual concrete objects are possible; so abstract/concrete are compatible [Fine,K]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality
9211 A non-standard realism, with no privileged standpoint, might challenge its absoluteness or coherence [Fine,K]
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 3. Objects in Thought
9202 Objects, as well as sentences, can have logical form [Fine,K]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities
9206 We must distinguish between the identity or essence of an object, and its necessary features [Fine,K]
10. Modality / A. Necessity / 3. Types of Necessity
9205 The three basic types of necessity are metaphysical, natural and normative [Fine,K]
10. Modality / A. Necessity / 5. Metaphysical Necessity
9209 Metaphysical necessity may be 'whatever the circumstance', or 'regardless of circumstances' [Fine,K]
10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity
9200 Empiricists suspect modal notions: either it happens or it doesn't; it is just regularities. [Fine,K]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / a. Sense-data theory
16638 The qualities of the world are mere appearances; reality is the motions which cause them [Hobbes]
12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 1. Empiricism
16688 Evidence is conception, which is imagination, which proceeds from the senses [Hobbes]
7405 Experience can't prove universal truths [Hobbes]
19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 8. Possible Worlds Semantics
9207 If sentence content is all worlds where it is true, all necessary truths have the same content! [Fine,K]
20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 1. Acting on Desires
7408 It is an error that reason should control the passions, which give right guidance on their own [Hobbes, by Tuck]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory
7407 Good and evil are what please us; goodness and badness the powers causing them [Hobbes]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention
7410 Self-preservation is basic, and people judge differently about that, implying ethical relativism [Hobbes, by Tuck]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / c. Right and good
7409 Hobbes shifted from talk of 'the good' to talk of 'rights' [Hobbes, by Tuck]
28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 4. God Reflects Humanity
7411 The attributes of God just show our inability to conceive his nature [Hobbes]