Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works', 'Testability and Meaning' and 'The Nature of Necessity'

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5 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 2. Domain of Quantification

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De Morgan introduced a 'universe of discourse', to replace Boole's universe of 'all things' [De Morgan, by Walicki]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / c. Truth-function conditionals

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In the truth-functional account a burnt-up match was soluble because it never entered water [Carnap]

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

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Plantinga says there is just this world, with possibilities expressed in propositions [Plantinga, by Armstrong]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / b. Rigid designation

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Possibilities for an individual can only refer to that individual, in some possible world [Plantinga, by Mackie,P]

28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / a. Ontological Proof

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A possible world contains a being of maximal greatness - which is existence in all worlds [Plantinga, by Davies,B]