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All the ideas for 'A World of States of Affairs', 'The Concept of Dread (/Anxiety)' and 'Concepts of supervenience'

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11 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 / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / a. Nature of supervenience

3536	Supervenient properties must have matching base properties [Kim]

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

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]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / d. Weakness of will

22098

Socrates neglects the gap between knowing what is good and doing good [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 3. Angst

22096

Anxiety is not a passing mood, but a response to human freedom [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle]

22097

The ultimate in life is learning to be anxious in the right way [Kierkegaard]

21909

Ultimate knowledge is being anxious in the right way [Kierkegaard]

20758

Anxiety is staring into the yawning abyss of freedom [Kierkegaard]

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]