Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Ways Worlds Could Be', 'Natural Minds' and 'The Barcan Formula and Metaphysics'

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11 ideas

4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 7. Barcan Formula

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The Barcan Formulas express how to combine modal operators with classical quantifiers [Simchen]

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The Barcan Formulas are orthodox, but clash with the attractive Actualist view [Simchen]

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BF implies that if W possibly had a child, then something is possibly W's child [Simchen]

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

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Serious Actualism says there are no facts at all about something which doesn't exist [Simchen]

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

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Structural universals might serve as possible worlds [Forrest, by Lewis]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / d. Secondary qualities

6375	The taste of chocolate is a 'finer-grained' sensation than the taste of sweetness [Polger]

16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 1. Self and Consciousness

6381	The mind and the self are one, and the mind-self is a biological phenomenon [Polger]

17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 5. Teleological Functionalism

6378	Teleological functions explain why a trait exists; causal-role functions say what it does [Polger]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind

6380	Identity theory says consciousness is an abstraction: a state, event, process or property [Polger]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 3. Natural Function

6379	A mummified heart has the teleological function of circulating blood [Polger]

6377	Teleological notions of function say what a thing is supposed to do [Polger]