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All the ideas for 'A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility', 'Causation and the Flow of Energy' and 'Axioms for the Part Relation'

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5 ideas

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 6. Making Negative Truths

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Negative existentials have 'totality facts' as truthmakers [Armstrong, by Lewis]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / a. Parts of objects

10650

In the military, persons are parts of parts of large units, but not parts of those large units [Rescher]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

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All possibilities are recombinations of properties in the actual world [Armstrong, by Lewis]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation

8326	Science has shown that causal relations are just transfers of energy or momentum [Fair, by Sosa/Tooley]

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Fair shifted his view to talk of counterfactuals about energy flow [Fair, by Schaffer,J]