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All the ideas for 'Propositions', 'God in Plato' and 'Epistemic and Metaphysical Possibility'

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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / c. Classical philosophy
23889 Among the Greeks Aristotle is the only philosopher in the modern style [Weil]
5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / b. Names as descriptive
9455 Maybe proper names have the content of fixing a thing's category [Bealer]
5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 2. Descriptions / b. Definite descriptions
9454 The four leading theories of definite descriptions are Frege's, Russell's, Evans's, and Prior's [Bealer]
10. Modality / A. Necessity / 6. Logical Necessity
12185 Logical necessity is epistemic necessity, which is the old notion of a priori [Edgington, by McFetridge]
19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions
9453 Sentences saying the same with the same rigid designators may still express different propositions [Bealer]
9452 Propositions might be reduced to functions (worlds to truth values), or ordered sets of properties and relations [Bealer]
19. Language / D. Propositions / 2. Abstract Propositions / a. Propositions as sense
9451 Modal logic and brain science have reaffirmed traditional belief in propositions [Bealer]
28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / b. Teleological Proof
23892 The only legitimate proof of God by order derives from beauty [Weil]