Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'works' and 'Introduction to Philosophical Papers II'

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7 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being

12270

Being is one [Melissus, by Aristotle]

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]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / b. Need for substance

10710

We accept substance, to avoid infinite backwards chains of meaning [Wittgenstein, by Potter]

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]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

3059	There is no real motion, only the appearance of it [Melissus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 1. Void

5100	The void is not required for change, because a plenum can alter in quality [Aristotle on Melissus]

27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 2. Eternal Universe

456	Nothing could come out of nothing [Melissus]