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All the ideas for 'The Origin of the Work of Art', 'The Logic of Decision' and 'Identity'

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12 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / b. Philosophy as transcendent

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Later Heidegger sees philosophy as more like poetry than like science [Heidegger, by Polt]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / c. Counting procedure

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It is controversial whether only 'numerical identity' allows two things to be counted as one [Noonan]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 4. Four-Dimensionalism

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I could have died at five, but the summation of my adult stages could not [Noonan]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 5. Temporal Parts

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Stage theorists accept four-dimensionalism, but call each stage a whole object [Noonan]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 2. Defining Identity

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Identity definitions (such as self-identity, or the smallest equivalence relation) are usually circular [Noonan]

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Identity is usually defined as the equivalence relation satisfying Leibniz's Law [Noonan]

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Problems about identity can't even be formulated without the concept of identity [Noonan]

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Identity can only be characterised in a second-order language [Noonan]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 8. Leibniz's Law

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Leibniz's Law must be kept separate from the substitutivity principle [Noonan]

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Indiscernibility is basic to our understanding of identity and distinctness [Noonan]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / b. Worlds as fictions

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A possible world can be seen as a complete and consistent novel [Jeffrey]

14. Science / C. Induction / 6. Bayes's Theorem

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Instead of gambling, Jeffrey made the objects of Bayesian preference to be propositions [Jeffrey, by Davidson]