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All the ideas for 'The Trouble with Possible Worlds', 'Frege on Extensions from Concepts' and 'fragments/reports'

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10 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 6. Ockham's Razor

15787

Maybe Ockham's Razor is a purely aesthetic principle [Lycan]

15784

The Razor seems irrelevant for Meinongians, who allow absolutely everything to exist [Lycan]

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

15792

Maybe non-existent objects are sets of properties [Lycan]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / a. Nature of possible worlds

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Treating possible worlds as mental needs more actual mental events [Lycan]

15796

Possible worlds must be made of intensional objects like propositions or properties [Lycan]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / c. Worlds as propositions

15794

If 'worlds' are sentences, and possibility their consistency, consistency may rely on possibility [Lycan]

18. Thought / C. Content / 1. Content

3115	Are meaning and expressed concept the same thing? [Burge, by Segal]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / k. Ethics from nature

6000	The goal is rationality in the selection of things according to nature [Diogenes of Babylon, by Blank]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / a. Form of the Good

5999	The good is what is perfect by nature [Diogenes of Babylon, by Blank]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / c. Justice

6001	Justice is a disposition to distribute according to desert [Diogenes of Babylon, by Blank]