Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Through the Looking Glass', 'Introduction to Philosophical Papers II' and 'Understanding'

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6 ideas

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]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / d. Humean supervenience

16210

Humean supervenience says the world is just a vast mosaic of qualities in space-time [Lewis]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

19690

'Grasping' a structure seems to be modal, because we must anticipate its behaviour [Grimm]

19691

Unlike knowledge, you can achieve understanding through luck [Grimm]

19692

You may have 'weak' understanding, if by luck you can answer a set of 'why questions' [Grimm]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature

9426	The world is just a vast mosaic of little matters of local particular fact [Lewis]