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All the ideas for 'A World of States of Affairs', 'Sentences' and 'A Plea for Excuses'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis
21960 Ordinary language is the beginning of philosophy, but there is much more to it [Austin,JL]
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 / 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 / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations
18528 The single imagined 'interval' between things only exists in the intellect [Auriol]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties
15550 Properties are contingently existing beings with multiple locations in space and time [Armstrong, by Lewis]
10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity
4743 The truth-maker for a truth must necessitate that truth [Armstrong]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / b. Prime matter
16589 Prime matter lacks essence, but is only potentially and indeterminately a physical thing [Auriol]
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]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 4. Divine Contradictions
16651 God can do anything non-contradictory, as making straightness with no line, or lightness with no parts [Auriol]