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The concept of a mental state is primarily the concept of a state of the person apt for bringing about a certain sort of behaviour.

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The Naturalist theory of possibility now to be advanced will be called a Combinatorial theory. It traces the very idea of possibility to the idea of the combinations — all the combinations — of given, actual elements.

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Philosophers have not found it easy to sort out sets.

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Set theory is peculiarly important... because mathematics can be exhibited as involving nothing but set-theoretical propositions about set-theoretical entities.

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David Malet Armstrong

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Born: July 8, 1926
Died: May 13, 2014 (aged 87)
Bio: David Malet Armstrong, often D. M. Armstrong, was an Australian philosopher.
Known for:
  1. A materialist theory of the mind (1968)
  2. A world of states of affairs (1997)
  3. Universals: An Opinionated Introduction (1989)
  4. Belief, truth and knowledge (1973)
  5. A combinatorial theory of possibility (1989)

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