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Ideas for 'Exigency to Exist in Essences', 'Identity and Necessity' and 'Molyneux's Question'

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10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 3. A Posteriori Necessary

9174	It is necessary that this table is not made of ice, but we don't know it a priori [Kripke]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / a. Possible worlds

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The actual universe is the richest composite of what is possible [Leibniz]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / b. Rigid designation

9172	A 'rigid designator' designates the same object in all possible worlds [Kripke]

9173	We cannot say that Nixon might have been a different man from the one he actually was [Kripke]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / c. Counterparts

9176	Modal statements about this table never refer to counterparts; that confuses epistemology and metaphysics [Kripke]