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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility' and 'Structuralism Reconsidered'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined

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Even pointing a finger should only be done for a reason [Epictetus]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 6. Making Negative Truths

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Negative existentials have 'totality facts' as truthmakers [Armstrong, by Lewis]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / d. Natural numbers

8923	Numbers are identified by their main properties and relations, involving the successor function [MacBride]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 7. Mathematical Structuralism / e. Structuralism critique

8926	For mathematical objects to be positions, positions themselves must exist first [MacBride]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

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All possibilities are recombinations of properties in the actual world [Armstrong, by Lewis]