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All the ideas for 'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'Identity and Necessity' and 'talk'

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10 ideas

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

9175	We may fix the reference of 'Cicero' by a description, but thereafter the name is rigid [Kripke]

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / c. Names as referential

9171	The function of names is simply to refer [Kripke]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / a. Constructivism

9916	Convention, yes! Arbitrary, no! [Poincaré, by Putnam]

10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 3. A Posteriori Necessary

9174	It is necessary that this table is not made of ice, but we don't know it a priori [Kripke]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / b. Rigid designation

9172	A 'rigid designator' designates the same object in all possible worlds [Kripke]

9173	We cannot say that Nixon might have been a different man from the one he actually was [Kripke]

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

9176	Modal statements about this table never refer to counterparts; that confuses epistemology and metaphysics [Kripke]

17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 7. Zombies

9177	Identity theorists must deny that pains can be imagined without brain states [Kripke]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / e. Modal argument

9178	Pain, unlike heat, is picked out by an essential property [Kripke]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

7903	The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna]