Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Dappled World', 'On Sufficient Reason' and 'Epistemic Two-Dimensional Semantics'

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5 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 1. Laws of Thought

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Necessities rest on contradiction, and contingencies on sufficient reason [Leibniz]

3. Truth / D. Coherence Truth / 1. Coherence Truth

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Truth in a scenario is the negation in that scenario being a priori incoherent [Chalmers]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities

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A sentence is a priori if no possible way the world might actually be could make it false [Chalmers]

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

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

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws

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Each of the infinite possible worlds has its own laws, and the individuals contain those laws [Leibniz]