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All the ideas for 'Changes in Events and Changes in Things', 'Theory of Knowledge (2nd edn)' and 'The Barcan Formula and Metaphysics'

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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / b. Seventeenth century philosophy

2945	Most philosophers start with reality and then examine knowledge; Descartes put the study of knowledge first [Lehrer]

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 4. Conceptual Analysis

2946	You cannot demand an analysis of a concept without knowing the purpose of the analysis [Lehrer]

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

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The Barcan Formulas express how to combine modal operators with classical quantifiers [Simchen]

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The Barcan Formulas are orthodox, but clash with the attractive Actualist view [Simchen]

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BF implies that if W possibly had a child, then something is possibly W's child [Simchen]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / b. Types of fact

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That Queen Anne is dead is a 'general fact', not a fact about Queen Anne [Prior,AN]

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

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Serious Actualism says there are no facts at all about something which doesn't exist [Simchen]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / e. Tensed (A) series

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'Thank goodness that's over' is not like 'thank goodness that happened on Friday' [Prior,AN]