Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Structure and Nature', 'The Poverty of Philosophy' and 'Possible Worlds'

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4 ideas

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 7. Mathematical Structuralism / a. Structuralism

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I apply structuralism to concrete and abstract objects indiscriminately [Quine]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism

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My ontology is quarks etc., classes of such things, classes of such classes etc. [Quine]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / a. Nature of possible worlds

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We can take 'ways things might have been' as irreducible elements in our ontology [Stalnaker, by Lycan]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 11. Capitalism

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The handmill gives feudalism, the steam mill capitalism [Marx]