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All the ideas for 'The Nature of Necessity', 'Habermas' and 'The Rationalists'

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9 ideas

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance

4304	Descartes says there are two substance, Spinoza one, and Leibniz infinitely many [Cottingham]

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

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Plantinga says there is just this world, with possibilities expressed in propositions [Plantinga, by Armstrong]

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

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Possibilities for an individual can only refer to that individual, in some possible world [Plantinga, by Mackie,P]

12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism

4303	The notion of substance lies at the heart of rationalist metaphysics [Cottingham]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics

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We don't condemn people for being bad at reasoning [Finlayson]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 3. Universalisability

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One can universalise good advice, but that doesn't make it an obligation [Finlayson]

24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 5. Culture

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The 'culture industry' is an advertisement for the way things are [Finlayson]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

4306	For rationalists, it is necessary that effects be deducible from their causes [Cottingham]

28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / a. Ontological Proof

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A possible world contains a being of maximal greatness - which is existence in all worlds [Plantinga, by Davies,B]