Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Identity through Possible Worlds' and 'The Absurd'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

3269	If your life is to be meaningful as part of some large thing, the large thing must be meaningful [Nagel]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 14. Knowledge of Essences

11966

If there are essential properties, how do you find out what they are? [Chisholm]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / a. Transworld identity

11965

Could possible Adam gradually transform into Noah, and vice versa? [Chisholm]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 8. Social Justification

3270	Justifications come to an end when we want them to [Nagel]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 2. Nihilism

3268	If a small brief life is absurd, then so is a long and large one [Nagel]

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]