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All the ideas for 'The Epistemology of Modality', 'Theology and Verification' and 'Anselm and Actuality'

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4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 4. Alethic Modal Logic
For modality Lewis rejected boxes and diamonds, preferring worlds, and an index for the actual one [Lewis, by Stalnaker]
10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 4. Conceivable as Possible / a. Conceivable as possible
How do you know you have conceived a thing deeply enough to assess its possibility? [Vaidya]
29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / c. Religious Verification
It may be hard to verify that we have become immortal, but we could still then verify religious claims [Hick, by PG]
Belief in an afterlife may be unverifiable in this life, but it will be verifiable after death [Hick, by PG]
29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / d. Religious Falsification
Some things (e.g. a section of the expansion of PI) can be verified but not falsified [Hick, by PG]