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All the ideas for 'The Epic of Gilgamesh', 'Counterparts and Identity' and 'Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus''

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7 ideas

4. Formal Logic / A. Syllogistic Logic / 1. Aristotelian Logic

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Aristotelian logic cannot express 'Everyone loves someone' [White,RM]

4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 7. Barcan Formula

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To say there could have been people who don't exist, but deny those possible things, rejects Barcan [Stalnaker, by Rumfitt]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / c. Counterparts

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Unlike Lewis, I defend an actualist version of counterpart theory [Stalnaker]

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If possible worlds really differ, I can't be in more than one at a time [Stalnaker]

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If counterparts exist strictly in one world only, this seems to be extreme invariant essentialism [Stalnaker]

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

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Extensional semantics has individuals and sets; modal semantics has intensions, functions of world to extension [Stalnaker]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

8659	The gods alone live forever with Shamash. The days of humans are numbered. [Anon (Gilg)]