Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Demonstratives', 'The Scientific Image' and 'Foundations of Two-Dimensional Semantics'

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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 7. Chance
Chance is compatible with necessity, and the two occur together [Weil]
19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 10. Two-Dimensional Semantics
Indexicals have a 'character' (the standing meaning), and a 'content' (truth-conditions for one context) [Kaplan, by Macià/Garcia-Carpentiro]
'Content' gives the standard modal profile, and 'character' gives rules for a context [Kaplan, by Schroeter]
'Water' is two-dimensionally inconstant, with different intensions in different worlds [Chalmers, by Sider]
21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 4. Beauty
The secret of art is that beauty is a just blend of unity and its opposite [Weil]