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All the ideas for 'Universals and Particulars', 'Punctual and segmentive Hopi verbs' and 'Two Kinds of Possibility'

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6 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / c. Self-predication

4442	Most thinkers now reject self-predication (whiteness is NOT white) so there is no Third Man problem [Armstrong]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 1. Types of Modality

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There are two families of modal notions, metaphysical and epistemic, of equal strength [Edgington]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 5. Metaphysical Necessity

12207

Metaphysical possibility is discovered empirically, and is contrained by nature [Edgington]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 6. Logical Necessity

12206

Broadly logical necessity (i.e. not necessarily formal logical necessity) is an epistemic notion [Edgington]

12208

An argument is only valid if it is epistemically (a priori) necessary [Edgington]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 5. Language Relativism

3914	Language arranges sensory experience to form a world-order [Whorf]