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Ideas for 'Abstract Objects: a Case Study', 'Letters' and 'On the Plurality of Worlds'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence

10470

There are only two kinds: sets, and possibilia (actual and possible particulars) [Lewis, by Oliver]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / a. Nature of supervenience

9650	Supervenience concerns whether things could differ, so it is a modal notion [Lewis]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 7. Abstract/Concrete / a. Abstract/concrete

10577

Concrete objects have few essential properties, but properties of abstractions are mostly essential [Yablo]

10578

We are thought to know concreta a posteriori, and many abstracta a priori [Yablo]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 7. Fictionalism

8909	Abstractions may well be verbal fictions, in which we ignore some features of an object [Lewis]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / d. Vagueness as linguistic

9057	Vagueness is semantic indecision: we haven't settled quite what our words are meant to express [Lewis]

9671	Whether or not France is hexagonal depends on your standards of precision [Lewis]