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All the ideas for 'works', 'Tropes' and 'What Does It All Mean?'

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6 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 2. Domain of Quantification

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De Morgan introduced a 'universe of discourse', to replace Boole's universe of 'all things' [De Morgan, by Walicki]

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

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

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

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

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

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

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use

4001	The meaning of a word contains all its possible uses as well as its actual ones [Nagel]