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All the ideas for 'The Gathas (seventeen hymns)', 'The Approach to Metaphysics' and 'The Nature of Necessity'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 4. Metaphysics as Science
14799 Metaphysics rests on observations, but ones so common we hardly notice them [Peirce]
10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / d. Possible worlds actualism
18383 Plantinga says there is just this world, with possibilities expressed in propositions [Plantinga, by Armstrong]
10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / b. Rigid designation
11891 Possibilities for an individual can only refer to that individual, in some possible world [Plantinga, by Mackie,P]
28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / a. Ontological Proof
20704 A possible world contains a being of maximal greatness - which is existence in all worlds [Plantinga, by Davies,B]
29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 1. Monotheistic Religion
7598 Zoroaster and the Hebrew prophets evolved different versions of monotheism [Zoroaster, by Armstrong,K]
29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 3. Zoroastrianism
7472 Zarathustra was the first to present a god who is an abstract concept [Zoroaster]
20672 Zoroastrianism saw the world as a battle between good evil gods [Zoroaster, by Harari]