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All the ideas for 'From Supervenience to Superdupervenience', 'Idea for a Universal History' and 'Barcan Formulae'

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12 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 3. Pure Reason
21054 Reason enables the unbounded extension of our rules and intentions [Kant]
4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 7. Barcan Formula
15380 Barcan:nothing comes into existence; Converse:nothing goes out; Both:domain is unchanging [Vervloesem]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / b. Types of supervenience
16052 'Superdupervenience' is supervenience that has a robustly materialistic explanation [Horgan,T]
16053 'Global' supervenience is facts tracking varying physical facts in every possible world [Horgan,T]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience
16056 Don't just observe supervenience - explain it! [Horgan,T]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
16054 Physicalism needs more than global supervenience on the physical [Horgan,T]
16055 Materialism requires that physics be causally complete [Horgan,T]
14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 3. Instrumentalism
16057 Instrumentalism normally says some discourse is useful, but not genuinely true [Horgan,T]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 2. Sources of Free Will
21053 The manifest will in the world of phenomena has to conform to the laws of nature [Kant]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / d. Liberal freedom
21055 Our aim is a constitution which combines maximum freedom with strong restraint [Kant]
21056 The vitality of business needs maximum freedom (while avoiding harm to others) [Kant]
25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 1. Basis of justice
21057 The highest ideal of social progress is a universal cosmopolitan existence [Kant]