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8 ideas

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / b. Type theory

6409	The 'simple theory of types' distinguishes levels among properties [Ramsey, by Grayling]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties

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How do we tell a table's being contingently plastic from its being essentially plastic? [Jackson]

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An x is essentially F if it is F in every possible world in which it appears [Jackson]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism

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Quine may have conflated de re and de dicto essentialism, but there is a real epistemological problem [Jackson]

10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 3. A Posteriori Necessary

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How can you show the necessity of an a posteriori necessity, if it might turn out to be false? [Jackson]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / c. Aim of beliefs

3212	Beliefs are maps by which we steer [Ramsey]

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]