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All the ideas for 'Possible Worlds and Necessary A Posteriori', 'A General Principle to Explain Laws of Nature' and 'The Architecture of Theories'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 2. Invocation to Philosophy

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Philosophy is sanctified, because it flows from God [Leibniz]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties

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How do we tell a table's being contingently plastic from its being essentially plastic? [Jackson]

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An x is essentially F if it is F in every possible world in which it appears [Jackson]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism

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Quine may have conflated de re and de dicto essentialism, but there is a real epistemological problem [Jackson]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 1. Concept of Identity

19394

Inequality can be brought infinitely close to equality [Leibniz]

10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 3. A Posteriori Necessary

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How can you show the necessity of an a posteriori necessity, if it might turn out to be false? [Jackson]

17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 1. Dualism

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Physical and psychical laws of mind are either independent, or derived in one or other direction [Peirce]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 1. Laws of Nature

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The world is full of variety, but laws seem to produce uniformity [Peirce]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

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Darwinian evolution is chance, with the destruction of bad results [Peirce]