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All the ideas for 'A Résumé of Metaphysics', 'works' and 'Semantic Necessity'

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5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 8. Theories in Logic

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Theories in logic are sentences closed under consequence, but in truth discussions theories have axioms [Fine,K]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity

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The role of semantic necessity in semantics is like metaphysical necessity in metaphysics [Fine,K, by Hale/Hoffmann,A]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 2. Semantics

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Semantics is either an assignment of semantic values, or a theory of truth [Fine,K]

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Semantics is a body of semantic requirements, not semantic truths or assigned values [Fine,K]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 7. Extensional Semantics

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Referential semantics (unlike Fregeanism) allows objects themselves in to semantic requirements [Fine,K]

19. Language / E. Analyticity / 4. Analytic/Synthetic Critique

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The Quinean doubt: are semantics and facts separate, and do analytic sentences have no factual part? [Fine,K]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / a. Nature of pleasure

5049	Intelligent pleasure is the perception of beauty, order and perfection [Leibniz]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 9. Counterfactual Claims

4398	An event causes another just if the second event would not have happened without the first [Lewis, by Psillos]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 3. Divine Perfections

5048	Perfection is simply quantity of reality [Leibniz]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 3. Problem of Evil / b. Human Evil

5050	Evil serves a greater good, and pain is necessary for higher pleasure [Leibniz]