Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Psychophysical Nexus', 'On Euclidean Geometry' and 'Killing and Letting Die'

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5 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / K. Features of Logics / 1. Axiomatisation

16886

The truth of an axiom must be independently recognisable [Frege]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience

4242	Pure supervenience explains nothing, and is a sign of something fundamental we don't know [Nagel]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 5. Action Dilemmas / c. Omissions

4692	It is not true that killing and allowing to die (or acts and omissions) are morally indistinguishable [Foot]

4694	Making a runaway tram kill one person instead of five is diverting a fatal sequence, not initiating one [Foot]

25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights

4693	The right of non-interference (with a 'negative duty'), and the right to goods/services ('positive') [Foot]