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All the ideas for 'Reference and Contingency', 'Teplitz Fragments' and 'Freedom and Action'

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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]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique

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Empiricists are passive thinkers, given their philosophy by the external world and fate [Novalis]

20. Action / A. Definition of Action / 1. Action Theory

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If a desire leads to a satisfactory result by an odd route, the causal theory looks wrong [Chisholm]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / c. Agent causation

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There has to be a brain event which is not caused by another event, but by the agent [Chisholm]