Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Through the Looking Glass', 'Letters to the Lord Marquis of Newcastle' and 'The Barcan Formula and Metaphysics'

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7 ideas

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

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The Barcan Formulas express how to combine modal operators with classical quantifiers [Simchen]

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The Barcan Formulas are orthodox, but clash with the attractive Actualist view [Simchen]

16190

BF implies that if W possibly had a child, then something is possibly W's child [Simchen]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing

21982

I only wish I had such eyes as to see Nobody! It's as much as I can do to see real people. [Carroll,L]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / d. Possible worlds actualism

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Serious Actualism says there are no facts at all about something which doesn't exist [Simchen]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will

2384	Those actions that follow immediately the last appetite are voluntary [Hobbes]

2385	If a man suddenly develops an intention of doing something, the cause is out of his control, not in his will [Hobbes]