Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Reference and Contingency', 'Letter to Clerk Maxwell' and 'Punctual and segmentive Hopi verbs'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

4 ideas

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 5. Contingency

14895

'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

11881

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

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 5. Language Relativism

3914	Language arranges sensory experience to form a world-order [Whorf]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / c. Forces

15313

By 'force' I mean the sources of all actions - sometimes called 'powers' by their outcomes [Breheny]