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All the ideas for 'Dialektik', 'An essentialist approach to Truth-making' and 'Semantics for Natural Languages'

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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 2. Truthmaker Relation

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Propositions are made true, in virtue of something which explains its truth [Lowe]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes

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Modes are beings that are related both to substances and to universals [Lowe]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / b. Critique of tropes

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Tropes have existence independently of any entities [Lowe]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions

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Davidson rejected ordinary meaning, and just used truth and reference instead [Davidson, by Soames]

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Davidson aimed to show that language is structured by first-order logic [Davidson, by Smart]

19. Language / E. Analyticity / 4. Analytic/Synthetic Critique

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Concepts are only analytic once the predicate is absorbed into the subject [Schleiermacher]