Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works', 'On the Principles of Indiscernibles' and 'Counterparts and Identity'

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7 ideas

4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 7. Barcan Formula

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To say there could have been people who don't exist, but deny those possible things, rejects Barcan [Stalnaker, by Rumfitt]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / c. Counterparts

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Unlike Lewis, I defend an actualist version of counterpart theory [Stalnaker]

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If possible worlds really differ, I can't be in more than one at a time [Stalnaker]

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If counterparts exist strictly in one world only, this seems to be extreme invariant essentialism [Stalnaker]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 1. Nature of Free Will

3447	All theory is against free will, and all experience is in favour of it [Johnson,S]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 8. Possible Worlds Semantics

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Extensional semantics has individuals and sets; modal semantics has intensions, functions of world to extension [Stalnaker]

28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / a. Ontological Proof

2116	The concept of an existing thing must contain more than the concept of a non-existing thing [Leibniz]