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All the ideas for 'The Scientific Image', 'Sickness unto Death' and 'Merely Possible Propositions'

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8 ideas

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 4. Impossible objects

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Predicates can't apply to what doesn't exist [Stalnaker]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity

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Empiricists deny what is unobservable, and reject objective modality [Fraassen]

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

6783	To 'accept' a theory is not to believe it, but to believe it empirically adequate [Fraassen, by Bird]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 2. Aim of Science

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To accept a scientific theory, we only need to believe that it is empirically adequate [Fraassen]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 3. Best Explanation / c. Against best explanation

6784	Why should the true explanation be one of the few we have actually thought of? [Fraassen, by Bird]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 4. Explanation Doubts / a. Explanation as pragmatic

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An explanation is just descriptive information answering a particular question [Fraassen, by Salmon]

16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 3. Self as Non-physical

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The self is a combination of pairs of attributes: freedom/necessity, infinite/finite, temporal/eternal [Kierkegaard]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 3. Concrete Propositions

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A 'Russellian proposition' is an ordered sequence of individual, properties and relations [Stalnaker]