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All the ideas for 'Folk Psychology', 'Letters' and 'Possible Worlds'

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5 ideas

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / a. Nature of possible worlds

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We can take 'ways things might have been' as irreducible elements in our ontology [Stalnaker, by Lycan]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 4. Folk Psychology

7518	If folk psychology gives a network of causal laws, that fits neatly with functionalism [Churchland,PM]

7519	Many mental phenomena are totally unexplained by folk psychology [Churchland,PM]

7520	Folk psychology never makes any progress, and is marginalised by modern science [Churchland,PM]

19. Language / E. Analyticity / 4. Analytic/Synthetic Critique

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I will even consider changing a meaning to save a law; I question the meaning-fact cleavage [Quine]