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Ideas for 'Thinking About Mathematics', 'Contingent Identity' and 'Anti-essentialism'

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10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / a. Transworld identity

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Possible worlds identity needs a sortal [Gibbard]

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Why imagine that Babe Ruth might be a billiard ball; nothing useful could be said about the ball [Stalnaker]

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Only concepts, not individuals, can be the same across possible worlds [Gibbard]

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

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Kripke's semantics needs lots of intuitions about which properties are essential [Gibbard]