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All the ideas for 'reports', 'Quine on Quantifying In' and 'The Barcan Formula and Metaphysics'

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

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The Barcan Formulas express how to combine modal operators with classical quantifiers [Simchen]

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The Barcan Formulas are orthodox, but clash with the attractive Actualist view [Simchen]

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BF implies that if W possibly had a child, then something is possibly W's child [Simchen]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 1. Logical Form

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Is it the sentence-token or the sentence-type that has a logical form? [Fine,K]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 4. Substitutional Quantification

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Substitutional quantification is referential quantification over expressions [Fine,K]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity

3016	Even the gods cannot strive against necessity [Pittacus, by Diog. Laertius]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / d. Possible worlds actualism

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Serious Actualism says there are no facts at all about something which doesn't exist [Simchen]