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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding' and 'Possible Worlds and Necessary A Posteriori'

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6 ideas

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties

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How do we tell a table's being contingently plastic from its being essentially plastic? [Jackson]

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An x is essentially F if it is F in every possible world in which it appears [Jackson]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism

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Quine may have conflated de re and de dicto essentialism, but there is a real epistemological problem [Jackson]

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

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How can you show the necessity of an a posteriori necessity, if it might turn out to be false? [Jackson]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

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Understanding is seeing coherent relationships in the relevant information [Kvanvig]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 3. Deism

1558	Clearly the gods ignore human affairs, or they would have given us justice [Thrasymachus]