Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Noneism or Allism?', 'Classes and Attributes' and 'What is Mathematical Truth?'

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6 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 4. Substitutional Quantification

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We can quantify over fictions by quantifying for real over their names [Lewis]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 7. Unorthodox Quantification

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We could quantify over impossible objects - as bundles of properties [Lewis]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 1. Nature of Existence

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'Allists' embrace the existence of all controversial entities; 'noneists' reject all but the obvious ones [Lewis]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence

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We can't accept a use of 'existence' that says only some of the things there are actually exist [Lewis]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 11. Properties as Sets

9783	While no two classes coincide in membership, there are distinct but coextensive attributes [Cartwright,R]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

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Mathematics eliminates possibility, as being simultaneous actuality in sets [Putnam]