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All the ideas for 'works', 'Il Saggiatore ('The Assayer')' and 'Reference and Essence: seven appendices'

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7 ideas

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]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / d. Non-truthfunction conditionals

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Conditionals are true if minimal revision of the antecedent verifies the consequent [Stalnaker, by Read]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / d. Secondary qualities

7401	Heat and colour don't exist, so cannot mislead about the external world [Galileo, by Tuck]

5454	Tastes, odours and colours only reside in consciousness, and would disappear with creatures [Galileo]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / i. Explanations by mechanism

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Galileo introduced geometrico-mechanical explanation, based on Archimedes [Galileo, by Machamer/Darden/Craver]

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]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 4. Mathematical Nature

3645	To understand the universe mathematics is essential [Galileo]