Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Identity and Spatio-Temporal Continuity' and 'Counterfactuals'

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6 ideas

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind

13128

'Ultimate sortals' cannot explain ontological categories [Westerhoff on Wiggins]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / c. Truth-function conditionals

14361

Lewis says indicative conditionals are truth-functional [Lewis, by Jackson]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 9. Counterfactuals

8434	In good counterfactuals the consequent holds in world like ours except that the antecedent is true [Lewis, by Horwich]

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]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / b. Best system theory

9419	A law of nature is a general axiom of the deductive system that is best for simplicity and strength [Lewis]

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]