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All the ideas for 'Two Problems of Epistemology', 'Possible Worlds and Necessary A Posteriori' and '17: Of Superstition'

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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties

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How do we tell a table's being contingently plastic from its being essentially plastic? [Jackson]

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An x is essentially F if it is F in every possible world in which it appears [Jackson]

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

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Quine may have conflated de re and de dicto essentialism, but there is a real epistemological problem [Jackson]

10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 3. A Posteriori Necessary

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How can you show the necessity of an a posteriori necessity, if it might turn out to be false? [Jackson]

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 6. Falsification

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Particulars can be verified or falsified, but general statements can only be falsified (conclusively) [Popper]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / b. Euthyphro question

7399	Even without religion, there are many guides to morality [Bacon]