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All the ideas for 'Philosophical Explanations', 'Postscripts on supervenience' and 'De Re and De Dicto'

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12 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / a. Names

14650

Maybe proper names involve essentialism [Plantinga]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / g. Real numbers

14648

Could I name all of the real numbers in one fell swoop? Call them all 'Charley'? [Plantinga]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience

13745

Supervenience is not a dependence relation, on the lines of causal, mereological or semantic dependence [Kim]

13746

Supervenience is just a 'surface' relation of pattern covariation, which still needs deeper explanation [Kim]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / d. Individuation by haecceity

14647

Surely self-identity is essential to Socrates? [Plantinga]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties

14646

An object has a property essentially if it couldn't conceivably have lacked it [Plantinga]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 4. De re / De dicto modality

14649

Can we find an appropriate 'de dicto' paraphrase for any 'de re' proposition? [Plantinga]

14642

Expressing modality about a statement is 'de dicto'; expressing it of property-possession is 'de re' [Plantinga]

14643

'De dicto' true and 'de re' false is possible, and so is 'de dicto' false and 'de re' true [Plantinga]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / a. Transworld identity

14651

What Socrates could have been, and could have become, are different? [Plantinga]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / c. Aim of beliefs

3570	Maybe knowledge is belief which 'tracks' the truth [Nozick, by Williams,M]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 4. Tracking the Facts

2748	A true belief isn't knowledge if it would be believed even if false. It should 'track the truth' [Nozick, by Dancy,J]