Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'On the Elements of Being: I', 'Merely Possible Propositions' and 'Letters to Hegel'

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6 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]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 4. Impossible objects

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Predicates can't apply to what doesn't exist [Stalnaker]

16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 4. Presupposition of Self

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The basis of philosophy is the Self prior to experience, where it is the essence of freedom [Schelling]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 3. Concrete Propositions

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A 'Russellian proposition' is an ordered sequence of individual, properties and relations [Stalnaker]