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II 10
Principle/Nozick: to show that principles explain a p, involves that they contain it. But that does not prove that p.
>Explanation, >Causal explanation, >Involvement, >Inclusion,
>Proofs, >Provability.
II 128
Richness/principle/existence/Nozick: thesis: "All possibilities are realized." - This follows from the assumption of the egalitarian theory that the options "something"/"nothing" are equal.
>Ultimate justification/Nozick.
This requires infinitely separate possible worlds because options can be contradictory. - Then you need no explanation why something is or is not, because everything is (somewhere) realized. - Then there is no fact "X instead of Y".
>Possible worlds, >Totality.
II 130
Nothing: one of the unrealized possibilities is also that there is nothing - but that is one among many, not the inegalitary situation that there would be "exclusively nothing".
>Nothing, cf. >Impossible World.
II 347
Consciousness/explanation/evolution theory/Nozick: consciousness allows other types of behavior: - to be guided by principles.
>Consciousness, >Behavior.

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Singer I 220
Principles/Responsibility/Nozick/P. Singer: Nozick makes a sensible distinction between "historical" and "time slices" principles. (R. Nozick 1974)(1):
Def historical principle/Nozick: in order to understand whether a given distribution of goods is fair or unfair, we have to ask how the distribution came about. We need to know its history.
Are the parties entitled to ownership as a result of originally justified acquisition?
Def time-slice principles/Nozick: consider only the current situations and do not ask about their realization.
>Time-slice.

1. R. Nozick, Anarchy, State and Utopia, New York, 1974

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