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All the ideas for 'A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility', 'Letters' and 'On 'Generation and Corruption''

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7 ideas

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

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

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

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

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / d. Secondary qualities

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Changes in secondary qualities are caused by changes in primary qualities [Giles of Orleans]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / b. Fact and value

4581	Virtues and vices are like secondary qualities in perception, found in observers, not objects [Hume]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / c. Motivation for virtue

4580	All virtues benefit either the public, or the individual who possesses them [Hume]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 3. Final causes

4579	The idea of a final cause is very uncertain and unphilosophical [Hume]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

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That events could be uncaused is absurd; I only say intuition and demonstration don't show this [Hume]