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All the ideas for 'Introductions to 'Aesthetics and the Phil of Art'', 'Counterparts and Identity' and 'Warrant and Proper Function'

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4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 7. Barcan Formula

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To say there could have been people who don't exist, but deny those possible things, rejects Barcan [Stalnaker, by Rumfitt]

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

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Unlike Lewis, I defend an actualist version of counterpart theory [Stalnaker]

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If possible worlds really differ, I can't be in more than one at a time [Stalnaker]

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If counterparts exist strictly in one world only, this seems to be extreme invariant essentialism [Stalnaker]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / a. Reliable knowledge

6356	Maybe a reliable justification must come from a process working with its 'proper function' [Plantinga, by Pollock/Cruz]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 8. Possible Worlds Semantics

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Extensional semantics has individuals and sets; modal semantics has intensions, functions of world to extension [Stalnaker]

21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 1. Aesthetics

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Modern attention has moved from the intrinsic properties of art to its relational properties [Lamarque/Olson]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 1. Defining Art

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Early 20th cent attempts at defining art focused on significant form, intuition, expression, unity [Lamarque/Olson]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 7. Ontology of Art

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The dualistic view says works of art are either abstract objects (types), or physical objects [Lamarque/Olson]