Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Reference and Contingency', 'On the Frame of Reference' and 'The Evolution of Physics'

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5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 4. Substitutional Quantification

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Substitutional quantification is just a variant of Tarski's account [Wallace, by Baldwin]

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]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / b. Fields

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The concept of a field gradually replaced the substances in explaining relations between charges [Einstein/Infeld]