Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'On the Elements of Being: I', 'The Golden Bowl, and Lit as Moral Philosophy' and 'Conditionals and Possibilia'

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5 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes

8508	A 'trope' is an abstract particular, the occurrence of an essence [Williams,DC]

8509	A world is completely constituted by its tropes and their connections [Williams,DC]

8510	'Socrates is wise' means a concurrence sum contains a member of a similarity set [Williams,DC]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / c. Truth-function conditionals

13858

The truth-functional account of conditionals is right, if the antecedent is really acceptable [Jackson, by Edgington]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

22688

The Aristotelian idea that choices can be perceived needs literary texts to expound it [Nussbaum]