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All the ideas for 'Modal Logic as Metaphysics', 'On Divination ('De divinatione')' and 'Possible Worlds and Necessary A Posteriori'

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6 ideas

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties
14633 How do we tell a table's being contingently plastic from its being essentially plastic? [Jackson]
14635 An x is essentially F if it is F in every possible world in which it appears [Jackson]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
14632 Quine may have conflated de re and de dicto essentialism, but there is a real epistemological problem [Jackson]
10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 3. A Posteriori Necessary
14631 How can you show the necessity of an a posteriori necessity, if it might turn out to be false? [Jackson]
10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / e. Possible Objects
18925 If talking donkeys are possible, something exists which could be a talking donkey [Williamson, by Cameron]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism
6029 Whoever knows future causes knows everything that will be [Cicero]