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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / a. Facts

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You can't name all the facts, so they are not real, but are what propositions assert [Russell]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / b. Types of fact

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Russell asserts atomic, existential, negative and general facts [Russell, by Armstrong]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 9. States of Affairs

5465	Modern trope theory tries, like logical atomism, to reduce things to elementary states [Russell, by Ellis]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / b. Vagueness of reality

6978	Baldness is just hair distribution, but the former is indeterminate, unlike the latter [Jackson]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment

6060	'Existence' means that a propositional function is sometimes true [Russell]