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All the ideas for 'Through the Looking Glass', 'Possible Worlds' and 'Introduction to 'Causation''

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10 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence

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Lewis's distinction of 'existing' from 'being actual' is Meinong's between 'existing' and 'subsisting' [Lycan on Lewis]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing

21982

I only wish I had such eyes as to see Nobody! It's as much as I can do to see real people. [Carroll,L]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / d. Possible worlds actualism

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Lewis can't know possible worlds without first knowing what is possible or impossible [Lycan on Lewis]

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What are the ontological grounds for grouping possibilia into worlds? [Lycan on Lewis]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 9. Perceiving Causation

8329	Either causal relations are given in experience, or they are unobserved and theoretical [Sosa/Tooley]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation

8324	The problem is to explain how causal laws and relations connect, and how they link to the world [Sosa/Tooley]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation

8328	Causation isn't energy transfer, because an electron is caused by previous temporal parts [Sosa/Tooley]

8327	If direction of causation is just direction of energy transfer, that seems to involve causation [Sosa/Tooley]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / c. Conditions of causation

8330	Are causes sufficient for the event, or necessary, or both? [Sosa/Tooley]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / b. Nomological causation

8325	The dominant view is that causal laws are prior; a minority say causes can be explained singly [Sosa/Tooley]