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All the ideas for 'works (all lost)', 'Propositions' and 'The Actual and the Possible'

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5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / b. Names as descriptive

9455	Maybe proper names have the content of fixing a thing's category [Bealer]

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 2. Descriptions / b. Definite descriptions

9454	The four leading theories of definite descriptions are Frege's, Russell's, Evans's, and Prior's [Bealer]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 5. Modality from Actuality

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A state of affairs is only possible if there has been an actual substance to initiate it [Pruss]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions

9452	Propositions might be reduced to functions (worlds to truth values), or ordered sets of properties and relations [Bealer]

9453	Sentences saying the same with the same rigid designators may still express different propositions [Bealer]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 2. Abstract Propositions / a. Propositions as sense

9451	Modal logic and brain science have reaffirmed traditional belief in propositions [Bealer]