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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Matter and Memory' and 'Counterparts and Identity'

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

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To say there could have been people who don't exist, but deny those possible things, rejects Barcan [Stalnaker, by Rumfitt]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / c. Becoming

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Bergson was a rallying point, because he emphasised becomings and multiplicities [Bergson, by Deleuze]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / c. Counterparts

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Unlike Lewis, I defend an actualist version of counterpart theory [Stalnaker]

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If possible worlds really differ, I can't be in more than one at a time [Stalnaker]

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If counterparts exist strictly in one world only, this seems to be extreme invariant essentialism [Stalnaker]

12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 4. Memory

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Bergson showed that memory is not after the event, but coexists with it [Bergson, by Deleuze]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 8. Possible Worlds Semantics

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Extensional semantics has individuals and sets; modal semantics has intensions, functions of world to extension [Stalnaker]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / k. Ethics from nature

6000	The goal is rationality in the selection of things according to nature [Diogenes of Babylon, by Blank]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / a. Form of the Good

5999	The good is what is perfect by nature [Diogenes of Babylon, by Blank]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / c. Justice

6001	Justice is a disposition to distribute according to desert [Diogenes of Babylon, by Blank]