Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Particulars in Particular Clothing', 'Recent Work on Consciousness' and 'The Realm of Matter'

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5 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

18521

The criterion of existence is the possibility of action [Santayana]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes

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Internal relations combine some tropes into a nucleus, which bears the non-essential tropes [Simons, by Edwards]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 3. Privacy

7522	A full neural account of qualia will give new epistemic access to them, beyond private experience [Churchlands]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 5. Qualia / c. Explaining qualia

7521	It is question-begging to assume that qualia are totally simple, hence irreducible [Churchlands]

7523	The qualia Hard Problem is easy, in comparison with the co-ordination of mental states [Churchlands]