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All the ideas for 'Intellectual Norms and Foundations of Mind', 'Necessary Truth' and 'Merely Possible Propositions'

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4 ideas

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 4. Impossible objects

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Predicates can't apply to what doesn't exist [Stalnaker]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity

4577	There is no necessity higher than natural necessity, and that is just regularity [Quine]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 3. Concrete Propositions

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A 'Russellian proposition' is an ordered sequence of individual, properties and relations [Stalnaker]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 7. Strictness of Laws

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If there are no finks or antidotes at the fundamental level, the laws can't be ceteris paribus [Burge, by Corry]