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All the ideas for 'Noneism or Allism?', 'Ontological Ground of Alethic Modality' and 'Farewell to Reality: fairytale physics'

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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]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / e. Against possible worlds

9220	Lewis must specify that all possibilities are in his worlds, making the whole thing circular [Shalkowski, by Sider]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / b. Fields

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Fields can be 'scalar', or 'vector', or 'tensor', or 'spinor' [Baggott]

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A 'field' is a property with a magnitude, distributed across all of space and time [Baggott]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / b. Standard model

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The current standard model requires 61 particles [Baggott]