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All the ideas for 'Intensions Revisited', 'Internal and External Reasons' and 'Reality without Reference'

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4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 1. Modal Logic

13591

Quantified modal logic collapses if essence is withdrawn [Quine]

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

13590

Essences can make sense in a particular context or enquiry, as the most basic predicates [Quine]

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

8483	Necessity is relative to context; it is what is assumed in an inquiry [Quine]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / e. Against possible worlds

13589

Possible worlds are a way to dramatise essentialism, and yet they presuppose essentialism [Quine]

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

13588

A rigid designator (for all possible worlds) picks out an object by its essential traits [Quine]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs

13592

Beliefs can be ascribed to machines [Quine]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning

6387	A minimum requirement for a theory of meaning is that it include an account of truth [Davidson]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions

6391	A theory of truth tells us how communication by language is possible [Davidson]

19. Language / B. Reference / 1. Reference theories

6388	Is reference the key place where language and the world meet? [Davidson]

6390	With a holistic approach, we can give up reference in empirical theories of language [Davidson]

19. Language / B. Reference / 4. Descriptive Reference / b. Reference by description

6389	To explain the reference of a name, you must explain its sentence-role, so reference can't be defined nonlinguistically [Davidson]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / c. Reasons as causes

9284	Reasons are 'internal' if they give a person a motive to act, but 'external' otherwise [Williams,B]