Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Dappled World', 'Gdel's Proof' and 'The Nature of Necessity'

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5 ideas

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

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Plantinga says there is just this world, with possibilities expressed in propositions [Plantinga, by Armstrong]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / b. Rigid designation

11891

Possibilities for an individual can only refer to that individual, in some possible world [Plantinga, by Mackie,P]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

17503

Theories can never represent accurately, because their components are abstract [Cartwright,N, by Portides]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 5. Rationality / b. Human rationality

9591	The human intellect has not been, and cannot be, fully formalized [Nagel/Newman]

28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / a. Ontological Proof

20704

A possible world contains a being of maximal greatness - which is existence in all worlds [Plantinga, by Davies,B]