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All the ideas for 'Confessions of a Philosopher', 'Zettel' and 'Intrinsic and Extrinsic Properties'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

2626	A philosopher is outside any community of ideas [Wittgenstein]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 4. Truthmaker Necessitarianism

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Give up objects necessitating truths, and say their natures cause the truths? [Cameron]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / c. States of affairs make truths

15394

Truthmaker requires a commitment to tropes or states of affairs, for contingent truths [Cameron]

5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 6. Paradoxes in Language / a. The Liar paradox

6569	'This sentence is false' sends us in a looping search for its proposition [Wittgenstein, by Fogelin]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 4. Intrinsic Properties

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Essentialists say intrinsic properties arise from what the thing is, irrespective of surroundings [Cameron]

15393

An object's intrinsic properties are had in virtue of how it is, independently [Cameron]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 1. Objects over Time

15396

Most criteria for identity over time seem to leave two later objects identical to the earlier one [Cameron]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 2. Causal Justification

3790	Causes of beliefs are irrelevant to their contents [Wittgenstein]

16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 3. Limits of Introspection

3102	Why don't we experience or remember going to sleep at night? [Magee]