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All the ideas for 'Sententia on 'De Caelo'', 'Facts and Propositions' and 'The Nature of Necessity'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly

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Philosophy aims to know the truth about the way things are [Aquinas]

3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 1. Redundant Truth

3750	"It is true that x" means no more than x [Ramsey]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / d. Possible worlds actualism

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Plantinga says there is just this world, with possibilities expressed in propositions [Plantinga, by Armstrong]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / b. Rigid designation

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Possibilities for an individual can only refer to that individual, in some possible world [Plantinga, by Mackie,P]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / c. Meaning by Role

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Sentence meaning is given by the actions to which it would lead [Ramsey]

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

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A possible world contains a being of maximal greatness - which is existence in all worlds [Plantinga, by Davies,B]