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All the ideas for 'Reference and Essence: seven appendices', 'Modal Realism at Work: Properties' and 'Conditionals'

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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / g. Degrees of vagueness

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It can't be indeterminate whether x and y are identical; if x,y is indeterminate, then it isn't x,x [Salmon,N]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 11. Properties as Sets

4038	Properties are sets of their possible instances (which separates 'renate' from 'cordate') [Lewis, by Mellor/Oliver]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / c. Truth-function conditionals

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There are some assertable conditionals one would reject if one learned the antecedent [Jackson, by Edgington]

19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / a. Direct reference

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Kripke and Putnam made false claims that direct reference implies essentialism [Salmon,N]