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All the ideas for 'Meaning and Necessity', 'Buddhacarita' and 'A Priori Knowledge'

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10 ideas

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity
20475 Maybe modal sentences cannot be true or false [Casullo]
10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 1. A Priori Necessary
20476 If the necessary is a priori, so is the contingent, because the same evidence is involved [Casullo]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 1. Nature of the A Priori
20471 Epistemic a priori conditions concern either the source, defeasibility or strength [Casullo]
20477 The main claim of defenders of the a priori is that some justifications are non-experiential [Casullo]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities
20472 Analysis of the a priori by necessity or analyticity addresses the proposition, not the justification [Casullo]
13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 1. Justification / c. Defeasibility
20474 'Overriding' defeaters rule it out, and 'undermining' defeaters weaken in [Casullo]
16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 4. Denial of the Self
7906 When the Buddha reached the highest level of insight, he could detect no self in the world [Ashvaghosha]
19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 8. Possible Worlds Semantics
11968 The intension of a sentence is the set of all possible worlds in which it is true [Carnap, by Kaplan]
29. Religion / C. Spiritual Disciplines / 3. Buddhism
7904 The first stage of trance is calm amidst applied and discursive thinking [Ashvaghosha]
7905 The Buddha sought ultimate reality and the final goal of existence in his meditations [Ashvaghosha]