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All the ideas for 'Classical Cosmology (frags)', 'Anti-essentialism' and 'Letter to Peter Wilhelm Lund'

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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 8. Subjective Truth

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I recognise knowledge, but it is the truth by which I can live and die that really matters [Kierkegaard]

5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 1. Ontology of Logic

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Logical space is abstracted from the actual world [Stalnaker]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 7. Substratum

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For the bare particular view, properties must be features, not just groups of objects [Stalnaker]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties

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An essential property is one had in all the possible worlds where a thing exists [Stalnaker]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities

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Necessarily self-identical, or being what it is, or its world-indexed properties, aren't essential [Stalnaker]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism

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Bare particular anti-essentialism makes no sense within modal logic semantics [Stalnaker]

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

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Why imagine that Babe Ruth might be a billiard ball; nothing useful could be said about the ball [Stalnaker]

27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology

5994	Is the cosmos open or closed, mechanical or teleological, alive or inanimate, and created or eternal? [Robinson,TM, by PG]