Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Papers of 1918', 'Introduction to Philosophical Papers II' and 'Steps Towards a Constructive Nominalism'

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4 ideas

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / d. Humean supervenience

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Humean supervenience says the world is just a vast mosaic of qualities in space-time [Lewis]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta

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We renounce all abstract entities [Goodman/Quine]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 4. Mental Propositions

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Propositions don't name facts, because two opposed propositions can match one fact [Russell]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature

9426	The world is just a vast mosaic of little matters of local particular fact [Lewis]