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All the ideas for 'Universals and Particulars', 'Causation' and 'Notes on John Wilkins'

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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / a. Facts

8386	Events are picked out by descriptions, and facts by whole sentences [Crane]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / c. Self-predication

4442	Most thinkers now reject self-predication (whiteness is NOT white) so there is no Third Man problem [Armstrong]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 14. Knowledge of Essences

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Essence is the distinct thinkability of anything [Leibniz]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation

8387	A cause has its effects in virtue of its properties [Crane]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / a. Constant conjunction

8384	The regularity theory explains a causal event by other items than the two that are involved [Crane]