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All the ideas for 'Dialektik', 'The Trouble with Possible Worlds' and 'People and Their Bodies'

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8 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 6. Ockham's Razor

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The Razor seems irrelevant for Meinongians, who allow absolutely everything to exist [Lycan]

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Maybe Ockham's Razor is a purely aesthetic principle [Lycan]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 4. Impossible objects

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Maybe non-existent objects are sets of properties [Lycan]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 5. Temporal Parts

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How can point-duration slices of people have beliefs or desires? [Thomson]

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

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Treating possible worlds as mental needs more actual mental events [Lycan]

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Possible worlds must be made of intensional objects like propositions or properties [Lycan]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / c. Worlds as propositions

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If 'worlds' are sentences, and possibility their consistency, consistency may rely on possibility [Lycan]

19. Language / E. Analyticity / 4. Analytic/Synthetic Critique

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Concepts are only analytic once the predicate is absorbed into the subject [Schleiermacher]