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All the ideas for 'Classical Cosmology (frags)', 'Review of 'Aenesidemus'' and 'Finkish dispositions'

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7 ideas

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

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

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

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All dispositions must have causal bases [Lewis]

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

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

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 9. Counterfactuals

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

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / a. Idealism

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Mental presentation are not empirical, but concern the strivings of the self [Fichte]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism

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The thing-in-itself is an empty dream [Fichte, by Pinkard]

27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology

5994	Is the cosmos open or closed, mechanical or teleological, alive or inanimate, and created or eternal? [Robinson,TM, by PG]