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All the ideas for 'A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility', 'Epiphenomenal and supervenient causation' and 'Relations'

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

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

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations

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We want the ontology of relations, not just a formal way of specifying them [Heil]

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Two people are indirectly related by height; the direct relation is internal, between properties [Heil]

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Maybe all the other features of the world can be reduced to relations [Heil]

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 2. Internal Relations

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In the case of 5 and 6, their relational truthmaker is just the numbers [Heil]

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Truthmaking is a clear example of an internal relation [Heil]

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If R internally relates a and b, and you have a and b, you thereby have R [Heil]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence

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If properties are powers, then causal relations are internal relations [Heil]

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 / 8. Particular Causation / a. Observation of causation

3535	All observable causes are merely epiphenomena [Kim]