Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'poems', 'The Impossibility of Superdupervenience' and 'The Material Mind'

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6 ideas

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 3. Levels of Reality

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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

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If some facts 'logically supervene' on some others, they just redescribe them, adding nothing [Lynch/Glasgow]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism

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Nonreductive materialism says upper 'levels' depend on lower, but don't 'reduce' [Lynch/Glasgow]

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The hallmark of physicalism is that each causal power has a base causal power under it [Lynch/Glasgow]

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 1. Psychology

6386	In no important way can psychology be reduced to the physical sciences [Davidson]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

6017	Nomos is king [Pindar]