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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'First Things First' and 'Counterparts and Identity'

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11 ideas

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]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 3. Evidentialism / b. Evidentialism

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Evidentialism is not axiomatic; the evidence itself inclines us towards evidentialism [Conee]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / b. Anti-reliabilism

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If pure guesses were reliable, reliabilists would have to endorse them [Conee]

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More than actual reliability is needed, since I may mistakenly doubt what is reliable [Conee]

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Reliabilism is poor on reflective judgements about hypothetical cases [Conee]

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

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]