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All the ideas for 'works', 'Intensions Revisited' and 'Moral Dilemmas Revisited'

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9 ideas

4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 1. Modal Logic

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Quantified modal logic collapses if essence is withdrawn [Quine]

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

10800

The values of variables can't determine existence, because they are just expressions [Ryle, by Quine]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism

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Essences can make sense in a particular context or enquiry, as the most basic predicates [Quine]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity

8483	Necessity is relative to context; it is what is assumed in an inquiry [Quine]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / e. Against possible worlds

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Possible worlds are a way to dramatise essentialism, and yet they presuppose essentialism [Quine]

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

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A rigid designator (for all possible worlds) picks out an object by its essential traits [Quine]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs

13592

Beliefs can be ascribed to machines [Quine]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 5. Action Dilemmas / a. Dilemmas

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There is no restitution after a dilemma, if it only involved the agent, or just needed an explanation [Foot, by PG]

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I can't understand how someone can be necessarily wrong whatever he does [Foot]