Schwarz I 158
Facts/colors researcher Mary/Lewis: you can learn special items and representations even if you get information in Russian, - but there are no particular facts for Russians. - Real progress in knowledge: acquisition of new skills. - Mary/Lewis: The main thing is that there are not recent (physical) possibilities excluded, that is not possible.
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Explanation/(s):
Example color researcher Mary/Frank Jackson: the color researcher Mary is in a closed room with a black and white monitor. She has any amount of literature about colors at her disposal. Question: is her knowledge sufficient to say that she knows everything about colors? >
Color/Jackson, >
Qualia/Jackson.
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Schwarz I 139
Moore's facts/Schwarz: For example, absences are often causes and effects. Something that only philosophers think about denying.
Schwarz I 11
Moore's Facts/Lewis: are more certain than the premises of any philosophical argument that could be used to refute them.
Schwarz I 15
Analysis/language/fact/Schwarz: strictly speaking, only words and sentences can be analyzed, not facts.
Fact/Schwarz: nothing but true sentences: For example "the fact that it is snowing" means nothing else than "it is snowing".
For example, "facts about snow are necessarily determined by facts about precipitation": is equivalent to a long conjunction of sentences like "necessary if there is no precipitation, it does not snow either", etc.
Schwarz I 62
Mathematics/actuality/fact/Lewis/black: as with possible worlds, there is no actual information: For example, that 34 is the root of 1156 tells us nothing about the world.
Schwarz: For example that there is nobody who shaves those who do not shave themselves is analogously no information about the world.
Schwarz I 133
Fact/Schwarz: if you understand them as classes of space-time regions, this is not an alternative at all, but only a terminological variant.
Def Fact/Lewis/Schwarz: true propositions (1986f
(1),189,Fn 15). I.e. classes of possible worlds. Then there are facts that unambiguously correspond with Lewis's classes of space-time regions, but one can no longer distinguish "right" causes and effects from wrong ones.
Cause/Effect/Event/Event/Act/LewisVsBennett/Schwarz: Event as fact: Problem: To Distinguish "Right Causes": Similarity is not a solution here: Example Xanthippe's becoming a widow: here one cannot refer to similarity of regions.
1. David Lewis [1986f]: Philosophical Papers II . New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press
