Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Through the Looking Glass', 'Possible Worlds' and 'The Mind and the Soul'

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8 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

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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]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties

9295	Not only substances have attributes; events, actions, states and qualities can have them [Teichmann]

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]

17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 2. Interactionism

9293	Body-spirit interaction ought to result in losses and increases of energy in the material world [Teichmann]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / b. Soul

9294	No individuating marks distinguish between Souls [Teichmann]

9292	The Soul has no particular capacity (in the way thinking belongs to the mind) [Teichmann]