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All the ideas for 'Exigency to Exist in Essences', 'The Sense of Reality' and 'Transworld Heir Lines'

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10 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 1. History of Ideas

7460	The great moments are the death of Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Romanticism [Berlin, by Watson]

5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 1. Ontology of Logic

11970

Logicians like their entities to exhibit a maximum degree of purity [Kaplan]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence

19400

Possibles demand existence, so as many of them as possible must actually exist [Leibniz]

19401

God's sufficient reason for choosing reality is in the fitness or perfection of possibilities [Leibniz]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 7. Substratum

11969

Models nicely separate particulars from their clothing, and logicians often accept that metaphysically [Kaplan]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / a. Possible worlds

19402

The actual universe is the richest composite of what is possible [Leibniz]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / a. Transworld identity

11971

The simplest solution to transworld identification is to adopt bare particulars [Kaplan]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / c. Counterparts

11973

Unusual people may have no counterparts, or several [Kaplan]

11972

Essence is a transworld heir line, rather than a collection of properties [Kaplan]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 8. Synonymy

11967

Sentences might have the same sense when logically equivalent - or never have the same sense [Kaplan]