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All the ideas for 'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'Commentary on the Metaphysics' and 'Attitudes De Dicto and De Se'

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10 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics

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Understanding begins with the notion of being and essence [Avicenna]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Simples

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The simple's whatness is its very self [Avicenna]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 3. Matter of an Object

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The ultimate material of things has the unity of total formlessness [Avicenna]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 2. Types of Essence

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An essence can either be universal (in the mind) or singular (in concrete particulars) [Avicenna, by Panaccio]

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

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The actual world is just the world you are in [Lewis, by Cappelen/Dever]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs

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A content is a property, and believing it is self-ascribing that property [Lewis, by Recanati]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 2. Propositional Attitudes

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Attitudes involve properties (not propositions), and belief is self-ascribing the properties [Lewis, by Solomon]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 9. Indexical Thought

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Lewis's popular centred worlds approach gives an attitude an index of world, subject and time [Lewis, by Recanati]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions

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A theory of perspectival de se content gives truth conditions relative to an agent [Lewis, by Cappelen/Dever]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

7903	The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna]