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All the ideas for '', 'What Does It All Mean?' and 'Counterparts and Identity'

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4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 7. Barcan Formula

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To say there could have been people who don't exist, but deny those possible things, rejects Barcan [Stalnaker, by Rumfitt]

5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 1. Overview of Logic

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If a sound conclusion comes from two errors that cancel out, the path of the argument must matter [Rumfitt]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / a. Logical connectives

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Standardly 'and' and 'but' are held to have the same sense by having the same truth table [Rumfitt]

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The sense of a connective comes from primitively obvious rules of inference [Rumfitt]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / c. Counterparts

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Unlike Lewis, I defend an actualist version of counterpart theory [Stalnaker]

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If possible worlds really differ, I can't be in more than one at a time [Stalnaker]

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If counterparts exist strictly in one world only, this seems to be extreme invariant essentialism [Stalnaker]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use

4001	The meaning of a word contains all its possible uses as well as its actual ones [Nagel]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 8. Possible Worlds Semantics

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Extensional semantics has individuals and sets; modal semantics has intensions, functions of world to extension [Stalnaker]

19. Language / F. Communication / 3. Denial

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We learn 'not' along with affirmation, by learning to either affirm or deny a sentence [Rumfitt]