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All the ideas for 'Three Grades of Modal Involvement', 'Reply to 'Rorarius' 2nd ed' and 'plays (frags)'

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

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Whether a modal claim is true depends on how the object is described [Quine, by Fine,K]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 1. Quantification

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Objects are the values of variables, so a referentially opaque context cannot be quantified into [Quine]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties

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Aristotelian essentialism says a thing has some necessary and some non-necessary properties [Quine]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 2. Nature of Necessity

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Necessity can attach to statement-names, to statements, and to open sentences [Quine]

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

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Necessity is in the way in which we say things, and not things themselves [Quine]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 2. Necessity as Primitive

74	Even God could not undo what has been done [Agathon]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / b. Relative time

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Space and time are the order of all possibilities, and don't just relate to what is actual [Leibniz]