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All the ideas for 'The Problem of Empty Names', 'The Concept of Law' and 'On the Source of Necessity'

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7 ideas

4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 3. Modal Logic Systems / g. System S4

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S4 says there must be some necessary truths (the actual ones, of which there is at least one) [Cameron]

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / e. Empty names

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Unreflectively, we all assume there are nonexistents, and we can refer to them [Reimer]

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

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Blackburn fails to show that the necessary cannot be grounded in the contingent [Cameron]

25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights

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Hart (against Bentham) says human rights are what motivate legal rights [Hart,HLA, by Sen]

25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 2. The Law / a. Legal system

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Positive law needs secondary 'rules of recognition' for their correct application [Hart,HLA, by Zimmermann,J]

25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 2. The Law / d. Legal positivism

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Hart replaced positivism with the democratic requirement of the people's acceptance [Hart,HLA, by Zimmermann,J]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / f. Eternalism

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The 'moving spotlight' theory makes one time privileged, while all times are on a par ontologically [Cameron]