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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Gathas (seventeen hymns)' and 'Finkish dispositions'

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9 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 6. Categorical Properties

15464

The distinction between dispositional and 'categorical' properties leads to confusion [Lewis]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived

15463

All dispositions must have causal bases [Lewis]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / c. Dispositions as conditional

15461

A 'finkish' disposition is real, but disappears when the stimulus occurs [Lewis]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 9. Counterfactuals

15462

Backtracking counterfactuals go from supposed events to their required causal antecedents [Lewis]

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]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 1. Monotheistic Religion

7598	Zoroaster and the Hebrew prophets evolved different versions of monotheism [Zoroaster, by Armstrong,K]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 3. Zoroastrianism

20672

Zoroastrianism saw the world as a battle between good evil gods [Zoroaster, by Harari]

7472	Zarathustra was the first to present a god who is an abstract concept [Zoroaster]