Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Modal Logic as Metaphysics' and 'On the Reality of Accidents'

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4 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 4. Concept Nominalism

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Abstracta are abbreviated ways of talking; there are just substances, and truths about them [Leibniz]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / e. Possible Objects

18925

If talking donkeys are possible, something exists which could be a talking donkey [Williamson, by Cameron]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]