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All the ideas for 'The Birth of Tragedy', 'Neutral Relations' and 'Naming and Necessity preface'

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14 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

7848	Philosophy begins in the horror and absurdity of existence [Nietzsche, by Ansell Pearson]

4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 1. Modal Logic

16985

Possible worlds allowed the application of set-theoretic models to modal logic [Kripke]

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / c. Names as referential

16982

A man has two names if the historical chains are different - even if they are the same! [Kripke]

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations

14217

The 'standard' view of relations is that they hold of several objects in a given order [Fine,K]

14216

The 'positionalist' view of relations says the number of places is fixed, but not the order [Fine,K]

14218

A block on top of another contains one relation, not both 'on top of' and 'beneath' [Fine,K]

14219

Language imposes a direction on a road which is not really part of the road [Fine,K]

14220

Explain biased relations as orderings of the unbiased, or the unbiased as permutation classes of the biased? [Fine,K]

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

16981

With the necessity of self-identity plus Leibniz's Law, identity has to be an 'internal' relation [Kripke]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 8. Leibniz's Law

4942	The indiscernibility of identicals is as self-evident as the law of contradiction [Kripke]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity

16984

I don't think possible worlds reductively reveal the natures of modal operators etc. [Kripke]

10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 2. A Priori Contingent

9385	The very act of designating of an object with properties gives knowledge of a contingent truth [Kripke]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / a. Possible worlds

4943	Instead of talking about possible worlds, we can always say "It is possible that.." [Kripke]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / a. Nature of possible worlds

16983

Probability with dice uses possible worlds, abstractions which fictionally simplify things [Kripke]