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All the ideas for 'Actualism and Possible Worlds', 'The Artworld' and 'fragments/reports'

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9 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being

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Necessary beings (numbers, properties, sets, propositions, states of affairs, God) exist in all possible worlds [Plantinga]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects

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Socrates is a contingent being, but his essence is not; without Socrates, his essence is unexemplified [Plantinga]

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

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Possible worlds clarify possibility, propositions, properties, sets, counterfacts, time, determinism etc. [Plantinga]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / d. Possible worlds actualism

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Plantinga's actualism is nominal, because he fills actuality with possibilia [Stalnaker on Plantinga]

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

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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]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions

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Are propositions and states of affairs two separate things, or only one? I incline to say one [Plantinga]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 6. Art as Institution

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An ordinary object can be a work of art, but only if some theory of art supports it [Danto]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 3. Deism

1558	Clearly the gods ignore human affairs, or they would have given us justice [Thrasymachus]