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All the ideas for 'What is so bad about Contradictions?', 'An essentialist approach to Truth-making' and 'Neutral Relations'

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9 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 3. Non-Contradiction

9123	Someone standing in a doorway seems to be both in and not-in the room [Priest,G, by Sorensen]

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

18351

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

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations

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The 'standard' view of relations is that they hold of several objects in a given order [Fine,K]

14216

The 'positionalist' view of relations says the number of places is fixed, but not the order [Fine,K]

14218

A block on top of another contains one relation, not both 'on top of' and 'beneath' [Fine,K]

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Language imposes a direction on a road which is not really part of the road [Fine,K]

14220

Explain biased relations as orderings of the unbiased, or the unbiased as permutation classes of the biased? [Fine,K]

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

18353

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

18352

Tropes have existence independently of any entities [Lowe]