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All the ideas for 'Time Without Change', 'Truthmakers and Converse Barcan Formula' and 'Virtue Theory and Abortion'

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason
8594 People have had good reasons for thinking that the circle has been squared [Shoemaker]
3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / b. Objects make truths
15134 The truthmaker principle requires some specific named thing to make the difference [Williamson]
3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 7. Making Modal Truths
15140 The converse Barcan formula will not allow contingent truths to have truthmakers [Williamson]
15141 Truthmaker is incompatible with modal semantics of varying domains [Williamson]
4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 3. Modal Logic Systems / h. System S5
15131 If metaphysical possibility is not a contingent matter, then S5 seems to suit it best [Williamson]
4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 7. Barcan Formula
15135 If the domain of propositional quantification is constant, the Barcan formulas hold [Williamson]
15139 Converse Barcan: could something fail to meet a condition, if everything meets that condition? [Williamson]
5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 1. Quantification
18492 Not all quantification is either objectual or substitutional [Williamson]
5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 4. Substitutional Quantification
15136 Substitutional quantification is metaphysical neutral, and equivalent to a disjunction of instances [Williamson]
5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 7. Unorthodox Quantification
15138 Not all quantification is objectual or substitutional [Williamson]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism
8596 Inability to measure equality doesn't make all lengths unequal [Shoemaker]
8597 We couldn't verify the earth's rotation if everyone simultaneously fell asleep [Shoemaker]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / a. Facts
15137 If 'fact' is a noun, can we name the fact that dogs bark 'Mary'? [Williamson]
10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / e. Possible Objects
15142 Our ability to count objects across possibilities favours the Barcan formulas [Williamson]
13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism
8593 Maybe billions of changeless years have elapsed since my last meal [Shoemaker]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / b. Basis of virtue
20195 Eudaimonia first; virtue is a trait which promotes it; right acts are what virtues produce [Hursthouse, by Zagzebski]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / a. Constant conjunction
8598 If things turn red for an hour and then explode, we wouldn't say the redness was the cause [Shoemaker]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / e. Eventless time
4226 If three regions 'freeze' every three, four and five years, after sixty years everything stops for a year [Shoemaker, by Lowe]
8595 If three regions freeze every 3rd, 4th and 5th year, they all freeze together every 60 years [Shoemaker]
28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / b. Ontological Proof critique
15133 A thing can't be the only necessary existent, because its singleton set would be as well [Williamson]