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All the ideas for 'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'The Pragmatist Account of Truth' and 'The Impossibility of Superdupervenience'

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8 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 3. Non-Contradiction
22642 Man has an intense natural interest in the consistency of his own thinking [James]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 3. Levels of Reality
16062 A necessary relation between fact-levels seems to be a further irreducible fact [Lynch/Glasgow]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience
16061 If some facts 'logically supervene' on some others, they just redescribe them, adding nothing [Lynch/Glasgow]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
16060 Nonreductive materialism says upper 'levels' depend on lower, but don't 'reduce' [Lynch/Glasgow]
16064 The hallmark of physicalism is that each causal power has a base causal power under it [Lynch/Glasgow]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / c. Facts and truths
22641 Realities just are, and beliefs are true of them [James]
13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / b. Pro-coherentism
22640 We find satisfaction in consistency of all of our beliefs, perceptions and mental connections [James]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues
7903 The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna]