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'How Things Might Have Been', 'Powers' and 'The Trouble with Possible Worlds'
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10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / a. Nature of possible worlds
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Treating possible worlds as mental needs more actual mental events [Lycan]
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Possible worlds must be made of intensional objects like propositions or properties [Lycan]
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10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / c. Worlds as propositions
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If 'worlds' are sentences, and possibility their consistency, consistency may rely on possibility [Lycan]
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10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / a. Transworld identity
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Transworld identity without individual essences leads to 'bare identities' [Mackie,P]
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10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / c. Counterparts
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De re modality without bare identities or individual essence needs counterparts [Mackie,P]
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Things may only be counterparts under some particular relation [Mackie,P]
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Possibilities for Caesar must be based on some phase of the real Caesar [Mackie,P]
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10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / d. Haecceitism
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The theory of 'haecceitism' does not need commitment to individual haecceities [Mackie,P]
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