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All the ideas for 'The Roots of Reference', 'Mad Pain and Martian Pain' and 'Summa quaestionum super Sententias'

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7 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations
16659 Relations do not add anything to reality, though they are real aspects of the world [Olivi]
8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived
14296 Dispositions are physical states of mechanism; when known, these replace the old disposition term [Quine]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 4. Quantity of an Object
16673 Quantity just adds union and location to the extension of parts [Olivi]
17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 4. Causal Functionalism
7444 Type-type psychophysical identity is combined with a functional characterisation of pain [Lewis]
17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind
7445 The application of 'pain' to physical states is non-rigid and contingent [Lewis]
17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / b. Multiple realisability
7443 A theory must be mixed, to cover qualia without behaviour, and behaviour without qualia [Lewis, by PG]
27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 5. Species
16663 Things are limited by the species to certain modes of being [Olivi]