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All the ideas for 'A World of States of Affairs', 'Of Human Freedom' and 'Two letters on mind'

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10 ideas

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth

4742	Correspondence may be one-many or many one, as when either p or q make 'p or q' true [Armstrong]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / c. Becoming

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Being is only perceptible to itself as becoming [Schelling]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 7. Fictionalism

9497	Without modality, Armstrong falls back on fictionalism to support counterfactual laws [Bird on Armstrong]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties

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Properties are contingently existing beings with multiple locations in space and time [Armstrong, by Lewis]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic

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Incorporeal substances are powers or forces [Descartes, by Pasnau]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity

4743	The truth-maker for a truth must necessitate that truth [Armstrong]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism

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We must show that the whole of nature, because it is effective, is grounded in freedom [Schelling]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 2. Sources of Free Will

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Only idealism has given us the genuine concept of freedom [Schelling]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / c. Matter as extension

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Impenetrability only belongs to the essence of extension [Descartes]

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

4798	In recent writings, Armstrong makes a direct identification of necessitation with causation [Armstrong, by Psillos]