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Ideas for 'Confessions', 'Modal Logic' and 'Significance of the Kripkean Nec A Posteriori'

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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 4. De re / De dicto modality

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A de dicto necessity is true in all worlds, but not necessarily of the same thing in each world [Cresswell]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 3. Necessity by Convention

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A key achievement of Kripke is showing that important modalities are not linguistic in source [Soames]

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

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Kripkean possible worlds are abstract maximal states in which the real world could have been [Soames]