Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Conditional Assertion and Restricted Quantification', 'On the Concept of Character' and 'works'

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7 ideas

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 5. Essence as Kind

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Only natural kinds and their members have real essences [Suárez, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]

14. Science / C. Induction / 5. Paradoxes of Induction / b. Raven paradox

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Read 'all ravens are black' as about ravens, not as about an implication [Belnap]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character

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We see our character as a restricting limit, but also as an unshakable support [Weil]

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The concept of character is at the centre of morality [Weil]

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We don't see character in a single moment, but only over a period of time [Weil]

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We modify our character by placing ourselves in situations, or by attending to what seems trivial [Weil]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation

7563	The old 'influx' view of causation says it is a flow of accidental properties from A to B [Suárez, by Jolley]