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All the ideas for 'Content Preservation', 'Three-Dimensionalism v Four-Dimensionalism' and 'Neutral Relations'

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10 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations

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The 'standard' view of relations is that they hold of several objects in a given order [Fine,K]

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The 'positionalist' view of relations says the number of places is fixed, but not the order [Fine,K]

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A block on top of another contains one relation, not both 'on top of' and 'beneath' [Fine,K]

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Language imposes a direction on a road which is not really part of the road [Fine,K]

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Explain biased relations as orderings of the unbiased, or the unbiased as permutation classes of the biased? [Fine,K]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / a. Scattered objects

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If we accept scattered objects such as archipelagos, why not think of cars that way? [Hawthorne]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 4. Four-Dimensionalism

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Four-dimensionalists say instantaneous objects are more fundamental than long-lived ones [Hawthorne]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity

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A modal can reverse meaning if the context is seen differently, so maybe context is all? [Hawthorne]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 1. External Justification

9382	Subjects may be unaware of their epistemic 'entitlements', unlike their 'justifications' [Burge]

27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 6. Space-Time

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Modern metaphysicians tend to think space-time points are more fundamental than space-time regions [Hawthorne]