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All the ideas for 'A world of truthmakers?', 'The Common-Sense View of Reality' and 'The Principles of Science'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 2. Possibility of Metaphysics
20728 Metaphysics is hopeless with its present epistemology; common-sense realism is needed [Colvin]
3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 6. Making Negative Truths
15549 If it were true that nothing at all existed, would that have a truthmaker? [Lewis]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / a. Early logicism
8628 I hold that algebra and number are developments of logic [Jevons]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism
20726 We can only distinguish self from non-self if there is an inflexible external reality [Colvin]
20727 Common-sense realism rests on our interests and practical life [Colvin]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism
20729 Arguments that objects are unknowable or non-existent assume the knower's existence [Colvin]
20730 If objects are doubted because their appearances change, that presupposes one object [Colvin]
20731 The idea that everything is relations is contradictory; relations are part of the concept of things [Colvin]