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Ideas for 'General Facts,Phys Necessity, and Metaph of Time', 'Thinking about Consciousness' and 'Actualism and Possible Worlds'

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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 2. Semantics

7872	Teleosemantics equates meaning with the item the concept is intended to track [Papineau]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 8. Possible Worlds Semantics

16469

Plantinga has domains of sets of essences, variables denoting essences, and predicates as functions [Plantinga, by Stalnaker]

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Plantinga's essences have their own properties - so will have essences, giving a hierarchy [Stalnaker on Plantinga]

7869	Truth conditions in possible worlds can't handle statements about impossibilities [Papineau]

7868	Thought content is possible worlds that make the thought true; if that includes the actual world, it's true [Papineau]