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All the ideas for 'Possible Worlds', 'fragments/reports' and 'Some Main Problems of Philosophy'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / c. Philosophy as generalisation

17992

The main aim of philosophy is to describe the whole Universe. [Moore,GE]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 10. Impossibility

5998	From the necessity of the past we can infer the impossibility of what never happens [Diod.Cronus, by White,MJ]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

20832

The Master Argument seems to prove that only what will happen is possible [Diod.Cronus, by Epictetus]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / d. Non-truthfunction conditionals

14304

Conditionals are true when the antecedent is true, and the consequent has to be true [Diod.Cronus]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / a. Nature of possible worlds

15793

We can take 'ways things might have been' as irreducible elements in our ontology [Stalnaker, by Lycan]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 4. Mental Propositions

6024	Thought is unambiguous, and you should stick to what the speaker thinks they are saying [Diod.Cronus, by Gellius]