Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Reference and Contingency', 'Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong' and 'Types and Ontology'

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4 ideas

7. Existence / E. Categories / 1. Categories

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Categories can't overlap; they are either disjoint, or inclusive [Sommers, by Westerhoff]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 5. Contingency

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'Superficial' contingency: false in some world; 'Deep' contingency: no obvious verification [Evans, by Macià/Garcia-Carpentiro]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / b. Rigid designation

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Rigid designators can be meaningful even if empty [Evans, by Mackie,P]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism

4761	The 'error theory' of morals says there is no moral knowledge, because there are no moral facts [Mackie, by Engel]