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All the ideas for 'The Psychophysical Nexus', 'Reply to Fifth Objections' and 'The Source of Necessity'

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11 ideas

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]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / a. Substance
3626 Knowing the attributes is enough to reveal a substance [Descartes]
10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity
12432 Explanation of necessity must rest on something necessary or something contingent [Hale]
12434 Why is this necessary, and what is necessity in general; why is this necessary truth true, and why necessary? [Hale]
12435 The explanation of a necessity can be by a truth (which may only happen to be a necessary truth) [Hale]
10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 3. Necessity by Convention
12433 If necessity rests on linguistic conventions, those are contingent, so there is no necessity [Hale]
10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 4. Necessity from Concepts
12436 Concept-identities explain how we know necessities, not why they are necessary [Hale]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / a. Innate knowledge
3630 Our thinking about external things doesn't disprove the existence of innate ideas [Descartes]
18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / c. Nativist concepts
3631 A blind man may still contain the idea of colour [Descartes]
28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / a. Ontological Proof
3640 Possible existence is a perfection in the idea of a triangle [Descartes]
3639 Necessary existence is a property which is uniquely part of God's essence [Descartes]