Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Grounding: an opinionated introduction' and 'The Idea of Equality'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

11 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics
17266 Using modal logic, philosophers tried to handle all metaphysics in modal terms [Correia/Schnieder]
2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 2. Sufficient Reason
17263 Why do rationalists accept Sufficient Reason, when it denies the existence of fundamental facts? [Correia/Schnieder]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / a. Nature of grounding
17270 Is existential dependence by grounding, or do grounding claims arise from existential dependence? [Correia/Schnieder]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / c. Grounding and explanation
17268 Grounding is metaphysical and explanation epistemic, so keep them apart [Correia/Schnieder]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / a. Facts
17267 The identity of two facts may depend on how 'fine-grained' we think facts are [Correia/Schnieder]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / h. Respect
3236 Equality of opportunity without equality of respect would create a very inhuman society [Williams,B]
25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 1. Grounds of equality
3234 Equality seems to require that each person be acknowledged as having a significant point of view [Williams,B]
3233 Equality implies that people are alike in potential as well as in needs [Williams,B]
25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 4. Economic equality
3235 It is a mark of extreme exploitation that the sufferers do not realise their plight [Williams,B]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / b. Education principles
13304 Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / d. Time as measure
20820 Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus]