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All the ideas for 'Intensions Revisited', 'Process Philosophy' and 'Against Dryness: a polemical sketch'

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10 ideas

4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 1. Modal Logic

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Quantified modal logic collapses if essence is withdrawn [Quine]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes

19480

Process philosophy places the dynamic nature of being at the centre of our theories [Seibt]

19479

Reductionists identify processes by their 'owner', but tornadoes etc. are processes without owners [Seibt]

19481

Traditionally small things add up to processes, but quantum mechanics reverses this [Seibt]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism

13590

Essences can make sense in a particular context or enquiry, as the most basic predicates [Quine]

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

8483	Necessity is relative to context; it is what is assumed in an inquiry [Quine]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / e. Against possible worlds

13589

Possible worlds are a way to dramatise essentialism, and yet they presuppose essentialism [Quine]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / b. Rigid designation

13588

A rigid designator (for all possible worlds) picks out an object by its essential traits [Quine]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs

13592

Beliefs can be ascribed to machines [Quine]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 1. Existentialism

20765

Man is a brave naked will, separate from a background of values and realities [Murdoch]