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All the ideas for 'works (fragments)', 'An essentialist approach to Truth-making' and 'Tropes'

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason

1813	All reasoning endlessly leads to further reasoning (Mode 12) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]

1811	Proofs often presuppose the thing to be proved (Mode 15) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]

1815	Reasoning needs arbitrary faith in preliminary hypotheses (Mode 14) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]

1812	All discussion is full of uncertainty and contradiction (Mode 11) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 2. Truthmaker Relation

18351

Propositions are made true, in virtue of something which explains its truth [Lowe]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes

18353

Modes are beings that are related both to substances and to universals [Lowe]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes

10467

Individuals consist of 'compresent' tropes [Bacon,John]

10464

A trope is a bit of a property or relation (not an exemplification or a quality) [Bacon,John]

10465

Trope theory is ontologically parsimonious, with possibly only one-category [Bacon,John]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / b. Critique of tropes

18352

Tropes have existence independently of any entities [Lowe]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / a. Nature of possible worlds

10466

Maybe possible worlds are just sets of possible tropes [Bacon,John]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 2. Justification Challenges / a. Agrippa's trilemma

8850	Agrippa's Trilemma: justification is infinite, or ends arbitrarily, or is circular [Agrippa, by Williams,M]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 1. Relativism

1814	Everything is perceived in relation to another thing (Mode 13) [Agrippa, by Diog. Laertius]