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All the ideas for 'Aristotle and Descartes on Matter', 'Some Remarks on Essentialism' and 'Truth and the Past'

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5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 1. Bivalence

8195	Undecidable statements result from quantifying over infinites, subjunctive conditionals, and the past tense [Dummett]

5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 6. Paradoxes in Language / b. The Heap paradox ('Sorites')

8194	Surely there is no exact single grain that brings a heap into existence [Dummett]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / b. Intuitionism

8190	Intuitionists rely on the proof of mathematical statements, not their truth [Dummett]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change

8198	A 'Cambridge Change' is like saying 'the landscape changes as you travel east' [Dummett]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism

8192	I no longer think what a statement about the past says is just what can justify it [Dummett]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties

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Essentialism says some of a thing's properties are necessary, and could not be absent [Cartwright,R]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 14. Knowledge of Essences

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The difficulty in essentialism is deciding the grounds for rating an attribute as essential [Cartwright,R]

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

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Essentialism is said to be unintelligible, because relative, if necessary truths are all analytic [Cartwright,R]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity

13953

An act of ostension doesn't seem to need a 'sort' of thing, even of a very broad kind [Cartwright,R]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism

8199	The existence of a universe without sentience or intelligence is an unintelligible fantasy [Dummett]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification

8193	Verification is not an individual but a collective activity [Dummett]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 6. Truth-Conditions Semantics

8189	Truth-condition theorists must argue use can only be described by appeal to conditions of truth [Dummett]

8191	The truth-conditions theory must get agreement on a conception of truth [Dummett]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / b. Prime matter

19399

Prime matter is nothing when it is at rest [Leibniz]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / f. Eternalism

8197	Maybe past (which affects us) and future (which we can affect) are both real [Dummett]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / k. Temporal truths

8196	The present cannot exist alone as a mere boundary; past and future truths are rendered meaningless [Dummett]