Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'A Puzzle about Belief', 'On Freedom' and 'Survival and Identity, with postscript'

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6 ideas

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

16079

De re modal predicates are ambiguous [Lewis, by Rudder Baker]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 5. Contingency

5040	Necessary truths can be analysed into original truths; contingent truths are infinitely analysable [Leibniz]

10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 2. A Priori Contingent

13159

Only God sees contingent truths a priori [Leibniz]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / e. Possible Objects

5039	If non-existents are possible, their existence would replace what now exists, which cannot therefore be necessary [Leibniz]

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 5. Mental Files

16383

Puzzled Pierre has two mental files about the same object [Recanati on Kripke]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 3. Divine Perfections

5041	God does everything in a perfect way, and never acts contrary to reason [Leibniz]