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All the ideas for 'The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics', 'Conditionals and Possibilia' and 'Quodlibeta'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics
21959 Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW]
7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories
16657 Substance, Quantity and Quality are real; other categories depend on those three [Henry of Ghent]
8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations
16658 The only reality in the category of Relation is things from another category [Henry of Ghent]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes
16645 Accidents are diminished beings, because they are dispositions of substance (unqualified being) [Henry of Ghent]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / c. Truth-function conditionals
13858 The truth-functional account of conditionals is right, if the antecedent is really acceptable [Jackson, by Edgington]
11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism
22012 Kant says things-in-themselves cause sensations, but then makes causation transcendental! [Henry of Ghent, by Pinkard]
21958 Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW]