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All the ideas for 'A Puzzle about Belief', 'The Human Animal' and 'The Logical Form of Action Sentences'

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6 ideas

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events

7771	We need 'events' to explain adverbs, which are adjectival predicates of events [Davidson, by Lycan]

8860	Language-learning is not good enough evidence for the existence of events [Yablo on Davidson]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / d. Commitment of theories

15002

If the best theory of adverbs refers to events, then our ontology should include events [Davidson, by Sider]

16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 7. Self and Body / a. Self needs body

16236

Maybe our persistence conditions concern bodies, rather than persons [Olson, by Hawley]

6669	For 'animalism', I exist before I became a person, and can continue after it, so I am not a person [Olson, by Lowe]

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 5. Mental Files

16383

Puzzled Pierre has two mental files about the same object [Recanati on Kripke]